103rd Street / Kenneth Hahn (Los Angeles Metro Station)
103rd Street-Watts Towers is a station on the Los Angeles County Metro Blue Line.
The station has an island platform on the Blue Line right-of-way adjacent to Grandee Avenue near the intersection of 103rd Street roughly in the center of Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
The station is named after Kenneth Hahn, the long-term LA County supervisor for South Central Los Angeles (and father of former Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn) whose support was also instrumental in getting the Blue Line built.
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