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An early routing of Figueroa Street near Downtown Los Angeles was part of U.S. Highway 66 , today a part of the Pasadena Freeway . The famed Figueroa Street Tunnels were once a part of that same stretch of roadway. The road passes through Downtown Los Angeles near Bunker Hill and South Park . Figueroa Street also passes by Staples Center . For the rest of its southbound journey, Figueroa Street runs parallel to the Harbor Freeway ( Interstate 110 ) in South Los Angeles . The only portion of Figueroa St. that leaves the Los Angeles city limits is in the city of Carson , but it soon reenters LA in the vicinity of Wilmington. The road ends at Harry Bridges Boulevard north of San Pedro .

Part of the southern terminus was once part of U.S. Highway 6 before its almost total Decommissioning through California in 1964; indeed, Figueroa Street at Pacific Coast Highway was the actual western terminus of that highway, although maps show that US 6 went as far east as Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach .