DOWNTOWN'S ORIGINAL
The History of the Southern California Flower Market
In 1912 the Japanese flower growers and sellers started the Southern California Flower Market* just a few blocks northwest of its current location. That market moved in 1923 to the 700 block of South Wall Street where it resides today. The 700 block of South Wall Street became the core of today’s Los Angeles Flower District and the “Grand Central” of trading between the wholesalers shippers florists and flower farmers who trucked their blooms fresh from the fields to market nightly.