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24-455: Culver Boulevard is an east-west thoroughfare in the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California , connecting Venice Boulevard (near the transit junction of downtown Culver City ) to the coast roads. Except for the downtown Culver City shopping district, the route is mostly residential with some "small markets and restaurants." Culver was laid out in 1904 as a parallel auto route for

48-598: A mile it is bad." In 1912 real estate developer Harry Culver worked to refine the segment of the Playa Del Rey route that passed through his forthcoming "Culver City" real estate project. He called it "Putnam Boulevard" and the Los Angeles Evening Herald reported, "According to present plans, Putnam boulevard will follow the line of the Pacific Electric Playa del Rey line through Washington Park to

72-461: A period of months in 1926 the designation referred to the entirety of what is now Robertson Boulevard , beginning in West Hollywood all the way down Vista Del Mar to Manhattan Beach and beyond. However, Harry Culver apparently objected and the old so-called Hollywood-Redondo Road was not unified, but separated, into Culver and Robertson, with the division lying at Venice Boulevard. Putman Avenue

96-483: A point west of Inglewood [Avenue]...It will form an automobile outlet for thousands of acres of land lying between the Washington boulevard and Redondo boulevard that heretofore has been inaccessible by automobile…It will be fully 100 feet in width the entire distance and lined by artistic electroliers , forming a great white way from Los Angeles to Redondo." The Culver Boulevard nomenclature was decided in 1925-26, and for

120-639: A wide range of disciplines. With an approximate enrollment of 28,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students, UCLA is the university with the largest enrollment in the state of California and the most popular university in the United States by number of applicants. Other post-secondary schools in the Westside are as follows: Other regions of Los Angeles County 34°02′30″N 118°25′31″W  /  34.04153°N 118.425392°W  / 34.04153; -118.425392 Electrolier Electrolier

144-430: Is a light fixture that holds electric lamps . Normally, the term designates an elaborate light fixture suspended from above, such as a large, multi-bulb pendant light . Additionally, the term is used by architects in the United States to refer to electric street lights or any exterior light fixture mounted on a pole or standard. The word is analogous to chandelier , from which it was formed. An example usage of

168-564: Is now Culver Boulevard was a project of the Automobile Club of Southern California , which was lobbying for roadways for private vehicles at a time when railways or even horses-and-carriages were the primary means of transportation around Los Angeles. In fall 1903, rights-of-way were granted by landowner R.C. Gillis and the Los Angeles Pacific Railway for the planned road, which was to be 30 ft (9.1 m) wide. By December,

192-401: Is still labeled on the 1928 Pacific Electric route map, but in small print, whereas Culver Boulevard is marked in bright green capital letters. It was in 1928 that the developers of the planned Palisades Del Rey residential subdivision announced the "widening and permanent paving of the two-mile stretch of Culver Boulevard between Centinela Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard …this will complete

216-528: The Los Angeles Times was reporting "Greased Rushaway from Los Angeles to Playa Del Rey Fully Assured." The plan was for a "seven-mile straightaway" from Ivy Station (described as just beyond the junction of Adams and Washington streets) to the beach resort village of Playa Del Rey . Industrialist Homer Laughlin weighed in, advocating firmly in favor of automobiles generally in February 1904. At present

240-545: The Mapping L.A. survey of the Los Angeles Times the Westside includes all of the below neighborhoods that are part of the city of Los Angeles: In the 2000 census , the Westside (as defined by the Los Angeles Times Mapping Project ) had a population of 529,427. In 2000, non-Hispanic whites made up 63% of the population. The areas within the city of Los Angeles that Los Angeles Almanac recognized as part of

264-695: The Playa Del Rey streetcar route established in 1902. The road had various names in its early years, including Speedway, the Ballona Road, the Playa Del Rey Road, the Redondo Road, the Hollywood-Redondo Boulevard, and Putnam Avenue. The name Culver Boulevard seems to have to been settled upon around 1925, following the annexation of Venice by the city of Los Angeles. The development of what

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288-560: The "nearly complete" Auto Club speedway. Sometime in late August or early September, "graders at work on the automobile road found the remains of two persons." By 1907, the Los Angeles Times reported that men who wanted to go duck hunting at the Ballona , "have such good roads to go over that the automobile is as generally used for transportation as the electric cars…The road taken by the Ballona clubmen runs out either Washington or Adams streets to

312-483: The Auto Club with the "big fill across the marsh from Alla station to the beach." By May 1904, the road was being called Speedway, the first of its names. The road-building was started from the west, Beach to City; the rights-of-way closer to the city were proving more of a challenge. As of August 1904, boosters were pitching the "nearly straight" railroad route from Ivy Station to the Playa Del Rey resort "paralleling"

336-638: The Great Depression and the track was thereafter used for freight until the 1980s. The cities of Los Angeles and Culver City redeveloped the abandoned railroad right-of-way into the Culver Boulevard Median Bike Path in the 1990s. Westside (Los Angeles County) According to the LA Weekly , there are different perspectives on where the Westside ends and the Eastside begins. Generally,

360-516: The Westside had a population of 413,351. Fifty-three percent of West Los Angeles residents aged 25 and older had earned a 4-year degree (or higher) by 2000, according to Census Bureau figures quoted by the Los Angeles Times. They included 89,620 people with master's degrees or higher and 117,695 with bachelor's degrees . In addition, 95,187 people in that age range had some college experience. There were 46,823 with high school diplomas but 40,451 who had dropped out before graduating. As of 2019,

384-470: The Westside is the area south of the Santa Monica Mountains and Sepulveda Pass , and west of either: Los Angeles Times readers submitted more than 300 maps, with borders ranging from Lincoln to La Brea and beyond. The most common east/west dividing lines were: Downtown, La Cienega Boulevard (the most common street cited), and the 405 freeway (the most common answer). The Times analyzed

408-488: The junction near Ivy Station, and continues out on the Ballona road, branching off to go to clubs at various points near the beach." Circa 1911, "Down to Ivy Station, the road is bad, then it is ordinary as far as Palms, fairly good as far as Clarkdale, and beyond that it is pretty good in the middle, but along the edges are ruts…to the intersection with the Motordrome road the going is ordinarily good, but beyond that for half

432-606: The median income of the neighborhood was about $ 96,300. The Westside is home to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a public research university in the Westwood neighborhood. It is the second-oldest of the ten campuses of the University of California system. UCLA is considered a flagship campus of the University of California system, along with UC Berkeley . It offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in

456-588: The paving on Culver Boulevard, which stretches from Culver City to the ocean." Photos taken of Culver in 1929 show elaborate street lights installed along the route at that time. On the occasion of the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the L.A. Times published a guide to Los Angeles' farms for visitors. The guide mentioned that "Venice-Playa Del Rey-Cienega" was a key district for market gardening, especially of summer celery, and mentioned intensive cultivation practices that were getting three or four crops out of

480-468: The public does little else but slur the automobile as a 'red devil of destruction.' If people want good roads let them cease their outcry against the automobile, for through that agency [the Automobile Club of Southern California] good roads will be obtained. The road to Playa Del Rey is rapidly nearing completion and a heavy layer of macadam is being placed on the approach to the seashore that passes over

504-467: The results and no one definition approached a majority. Ultimately, the Los Angeles Times Mapping Project settled on a definition comprising 101.28 square miles (262 km ), encompassing not only districts in the city of Los Angeles but also two unincorporated neighborhoods, plus the cities of Beverly Hills , Culver City , and Santa Monica , but excluding all of the city of West Hollywood – even areas west of La Cienega Boulevard. According to

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528-473: The same field in one year. Tourists interested in such a thing were advised to navigate to Culver City, then "turn south and west on Culver Boulevard…a few miles beyond Culver City on this boulevard will bring one to the center of the vegetable district." Culver Boulevard made occasional brief appearances in Laurel & Hardy and Our Gang shorts produced by the nearby studios. The streetcar line shut down during

552-483: The sand. Elsewhere in the paper that day, the plan for what would become Culver Boulevard was succinctly summarized: "The plan is to leave Ivy Station, just this side of Palms , and parallel the Los Angeles-Pacific's electric road's line to Playa Del Rey ." Apparently this route's advantages included that the "friendly" railway was offering their rights-of-way and that its "gravel pits, cars and tracks" would help

576-471: The term is found in Sir John Betjeman ’s poem "The Metropolitan Railway - Baker Street Station Buffet" from his collection "A Few Late Chrysanthemums" (1954): "Early Electric! With what radiant hope / Men formed this many-branched electrolier , / Twisted the flex around the iron rope / And let the dazzling vacuum globes hang clear, / And then with hearts the rich contrivance fill’d / Of copper, beaten by

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