39-756: Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California , United States, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles . It is a major thoroughfare in the cities of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood (including a portion known as the Sunset Strip ), as well as several districts in Los Angeles . Approximately 23.6 miles (38 km) in length,
78-570: A Residents Association of some kind. While the annual County of Los Angeles homeless count rarely attributes more than 50 persons as homeless in Brentwood, the majority of the homeless persons are Veterans. While the VA does have available beds and treatment programs, many Veterans find it hard to take the first step to accept VA assistance for a variety of reasons, including deep mistrust of the VA, dishonorable discharges that prevent them from receiving services,
117-485: A Sunset Strip club, in 1966. Metro Local lines 2, 4 and 602 operate on Sunset Boulevard, with Line 2 running through most of Sunset Boulevard between Echo Park and UCLA, Line 4 between Sunset Junction and Downtown LA, and Line 602 from UCLA west. The Metro B Line operates a subway station at Vermont Avenue . At 4334 W. Sunset Boulevard lies the wall featured on the cover of the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith 's 2000 album Figure 8 . Since Smith's death in 2003,
156-402: A Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, due to the long, uninterrupted border of urban-wildlife interface in the hillsides that has resulted in multiple fires over many years, destroying entire neighborhoods and requiring numerous evacuations. For this reason, the Brentwood community has been strongly in favor of halting all further development in the hillside and canyon areas. On November 6, 1961,
195-621: A central median. The word boulevard is borrowed from French . In France, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart , and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word bolwerk ' bulwark '. Boulevards in Copenhagen : Mandeville Canyon, Los Angeles Brentwood is a suburban neighborhood in the Westside region of Los Angeles , California. Modern development began after
234-581: A construction crew working in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley north of Brentwood on the far side of the Santa Monica Mountains noticed smoke and flames in a nearby pile of rubbish. Within minutes, Santa Ana winds gusting up to 60 mph (100 km/h) sent burning brush aloft and over the ridge into Brentwood. More than 300 police officers helped evacuate 3,500 residents during
273-417: A different homeowners association . Brentwood's Barrington Recreation Center has an indoor gymnasium which converts into a small auditorium with a capacity of 250. Outdoors is a lighted baseball diamond, an unlighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, picnic tables and lighted tennis courts. As of March 2018, Barrington Park received
312-581: A grade of "D" from the Los Angeles Parks and Recreation Department due its poor facilities; upon investigation, the Brentwood Community Council discovered $ 1.1 million in missing funds that were supposed to be used for capital upgrades at the park and successfully fought the city for their return. With the funds back in place, the Community has worked to improve the park. The Barrington Dog Park
351-620: A group dedicated only to residents under 40, called Brentwood '49. City Services are provided by the Los Angeles Fire Department Station 19 in Brentwood. The Los Angeles Police Department operates the West Los Angeles Community Police Station in West Los Angeles , serving Brentwood. The City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power provide utilities. All areas of Brentwood are served by
390-438: A high percentage for the city and the county. The percentages of residents in that age range with a bachelor's degree or greater were high for the county. Schools within the Brentwood borders are as follows: The public elementary schools in the area are Kenter Canyon Elementary School (an LAUSD charter school ) and Brentwood Science Magnet Elementary School (an LAUSD alternative school ). Paul Revere Charter Middle School
429-478: A mile of Bel Air and Brentwood. The fires were the fifth-worst conflagration in the nation's history at the time, burning 16,090 acres (65 km ), destroying more than 484 homes and 190 other structures and causing an estimated $ 30 million in damage. Brentwood was the site of the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman , outside Nicole Brown Simpson's Bundy Drive townhouse. Nicole's ex-husband, football player and actor O. J. Simpson ,
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#1732851284983468-463: A two-block stretch offering a wide variety of cuisine. Dutton's Brentwood Books, a local landmark called by Sunset magazine "the last of the truly independent bookstores", closed its doors in April 2008. Brentwood and Pacific Palisades both chose to form community councils in order to have an independent voice with regard to issues that impact their communities, such as their joint Community Plan, which
507-611: Is Lindsey Horvath . Brentwood is represented in the California State Senate by Ben Allen and in the California State Assembly by Richard Bloom . The United States Postal Service operates the Barrington Post Office in Brentwood. Ted Lieu represents the area in the U.S. House of Representatives . Seventy percent of Brentwood residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000,
546-420: Is a City approved document that governs the aesthetics of zoning and design for the neighborhoods. The Brentwood Community Council holds monthly public meetings, as does its Land Use Committee, and has been a powerful and effective voice for the community since the 1990s. The BCC Board includes members from all local HOA's, plus members representing schools, business, environment, transportation, civic affairs and
585-732: Is across the street from the recreation center and is part of Barrington Veterans Park, which is owned by the West LA VA and leased to the City of Los Angeles. The vast majority of office space in Brentwood is rented to professional services firms: accountants, lawyers, medical care. There are three upscale commercial areas: Brentwood Country Mart, Barrington Plaza and the San Vicente Business District, which include restaurants, clothing stores, and other high-end retailers. A few long time businesses should be noted: Brent-Air Pharmacy, run by
624-583: Is defined by ridges and canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains and is located in a Cal-Fire designated Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone; south of Sunset the area is mostly flat. The area South of San Vicente features an underground spring which bubbles up into a small creek along "the Gully" near the Brentwood Country Club. The 2000 U.S. census counted 31,344 residents in the 15.22-square-mile Brentwood neighborhood —or 2,059 people per square mile. In 2008,
663-580: Is one of the last reminders of that namesake. Local traditions include a Maypole erected each year on the lawn of the Archer School for Girls , carrying on that set by the Eastern Star Home previously housed there. This building was the exterior establishing shot for the "Mar Vista Rest Home" that provided a key scene in the 1974 film Chinatown . The State Cal-Fire Authority officially designated Brentwood, from Mulholland down to Sunset Boulevard,
702-640: Is today Hollywood and Vine . In 1890, Belgian diplomat Victor Ponet bought 240 acres (97 ha) of the former Rancho La Brea land grant. His son-in-law, Francis S. Montgomery , inherited this property and created Sunset Plaza . According to a 1901 article in the Los Angeles Herald , Sunset only extended from Hollywood in the west to Marion Avenue in the Echo Park district in the east. The Board of Public Works proposed to extend Sunset east to Main Street in
741-475: The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name , and the 1950s television series 77 Sunset Strip . Jan and Dean 's 1960s hit song " Dead Man's Curve " refers to a section of the road near Bel Air estates just north of UCLA 's Drake Stadium where Jan Berry almost died in an automobile accident in 1966. The Buffalo Springfield song " For What It's Worth " was written about a riot at Pandora's Box ,
780-564: The Santa Monica city limit, is a shopping and food center that first opened in 1948. Vicente Foods is an independently owned and operated grocery market that has served Brentwood since 1948. Other local markets include Whole Foods and Ralphs. A popular area for dining and coffee for local residents is located in Brentwood Village at the intersection of Barrington and Sunset. More than a dozen restaurants and coffee shops are located within
819-664: The boulevard roughly traces the arc of mountains that form part of the northern boundary of the Los Angeles Basin , following the path of a 1780s cattle trail from the Pueblo de Los Angeles to the ocean. From Downtown Los Angeles, the boulevard heads northwest, to Hollywood , through which it travels due west for several miles before it bends southwest towards the ocean. It passes through or near Echo Park , Silver Lake , Los Feliz , Hollywood, West Hollywood , Beverly Hills , and Holmby Hills . In Bel-Air , Sunset Boulevard runs along
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#1732851284983858-490: The 12-hour fire, and some 2,500 firefighters battled the blaze, pumping water from neighborhood swimming pools to douse flames. Pockets of the fire smoldered for several days. Even as firefighters battled what was to become a Bel Air disaster, another fire erupted in Santa Ynez Canyon to the west. That blaze was contained the next day after consuming nearly 10,000 acres (40 km ) and nine structures and burning to within
897-605: The Boulevard. Part of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is also sometimes called "Guitar Row" due to the large number of guitar stores and music industry-related businesses, including the recording studios Sunset Sound Studios and United Western Recorders . The portion of Sunset Boulevard that passes through Beverly Hills was once named Beverly Boulevard. The boulevard is commemorated in Billy Wilder 's film Sunset Boulevard (1950),
936-506: The Plaza by routing the road over the existing section of Bellevue Avenue, but the plan was delayed until approximately 1904, due to active opposition by affected land owners. According to the 1910 Baist Real Estate Survey Atlas, Sunset Boulevard reached the Plaza by that time, but it did so by two short and narrow segments which were not aligned with each other and thus did not provide a proper thoroughfare to it. In late 1912, several properties along
975-568: The State of California creating Will Rogers State Historic Park . c. 1931 , Sunset was a paved road from Horn Avenue to Havenhurst Avenue. The Sunset Strip portion of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood has been famous for its active nightlife since at least the 1950s. In contrast to other American cities where it referred to a concentration of radio retailers, in Los Angeles, Radio Row
1014-632: The VA, proving that multiple leases of VA property had been used for fraudulent means. Several individuals went to prison, including a former VA executive. As a result of the settlement in the Veterans civil suit against the VA, the $ 1B VA Master Plan Redevelopment of the West LA VA property, including 2000+ units of housing, was approved by Congress in 2019 and was completed in late 2020. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Brentwood. The Supervisor for this area
1053-509: The city estimated that the population had increased to 33,312. The population was 84.2% Non-Hispanic White , 6.5% Asian American , 4.5% Hispanic or Latino , 1.2% African American , and 3.6% of other origins. Iran (27.2%) and the United Kingdom (4.8%) were the most common places of birth for the 21.1% of the residents who were born abroad—which was a low percentage for Los Angeles as a whole. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars
1092-500: The establishment of the 600-acre (2.4 km ) Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors in the 1880s. A small community sprang up outside that facility's west gate, taking on the name Westgate . Annexed by the City of Los Angeles on June 14, 1916, Westgate's 49 sq mi (130 km ) included large parts of what is now the Pacific Palisades and a small portion of today's Bel-Air . Westgate Avenue
1131-493: The founding Lassoff family from its inception until June 2007, served Brentwood for more than 50 years. The drug store has been the scene of many famous scandals and, like its defunct West Hollywood cousin Schwab's , is known as the pharmacy to the stars, where many now-notable actors and actresses worked as delivery boys or "candy counter" girls. The Brentwood Country Mart , near the corner of San Vicente Blvd and 26th Street next to
1170-485: The historic section of Downtown. The portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Figueroa Street was renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue in 1994, along with Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue, in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader and civil rights activist . In 1877, Harvey Henderson Wilcox , one of the earlier real estate owners from "back East", decided to subdivide more than 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land (mostly orchards and vineyards) along Sunset Boulevard, including what
1209-444: The mandatory sober living environment on the VA campus. The Brentwood Community Council took the lead in 2013 to help establish Veteran safe parking and safe camping programs, which allow Veterans to take an 'intermediate step" between homelessness and accepting full VA assistance and these programs have been successful and have grown over time. Some Veterans believed the VA was derelict in its duty to provide housing and successfully sued
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1248-655: The northern boundary of UCLA 's Westwood campus. The boulevard continues through Brentwood to Pacific Palisades , where it terminates at the Pacific Coast Highway intersection. The boulevard has curvaceous winding stretches, and can be treacherous for unalert drivers in some sections. Sunset Boulevard is at least four lanes wide along its entire route. Sunset is frequently congested with traffic loads beyond its design capacity. Sunset Boulevard historically extended farther east than it does now, starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in
1287-418: The route were condemned so that the boulevard could be changed in both its width and its alignment. With these changes completed, Sunset Boulevard now reached North Main Street and continued as Marchessault along the northern end of the Plaza. This section, variously marked and signed as Marchessault Street or East Sunset Boulevard, remained open to traffic until the late 1960s or early 1970s. At that time, Sunset
1326-470: The southwest, Sullivan Canyon/Westridge Trail on the west and Mulholland Drive on the north. Brentwood, like nearby Santa Monica , has a temperate climate influenced by water breezes off the Pacific water. Residents frequently wake to a " marine layer ", sunshine and birds singing in the air. The topography is generally split into two characters, broadly divided by Sunset Boulevard : the area north of Sunset
1365-483: The wall has become a memorial for the artist; fans have left many personal messages there over the years. Boulevard A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America , any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district. Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls . In North American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane thoroughfares divided with only
1404-462: Was acquitted of the murders , but was later found liable for the deaths in a civil trial . O. J. Simpson's Brentwood home was subsequently sold. The new owners demolished Simpson's home and built a new residence. The district is located at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains , bounded by the San Diego Freeway on the east, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, the Santa Monica city limits on
1443-403: Was $ 112,927, high for the city of Los Angeles as well as the county. San Vicente Boulevard is divided by a wide median on which stand many large coral trees . This green belt replaced a Pacific Electric trolley track, and the trees have been named a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. Brentwood features a number of residential sub-districts: Each sub-district is represented by
1482-438: Was realigned one block north and Marchessault was closed to motor traffic. In 1921 a westward expansion of Sunset began, extending the road from the then-current terminus at Sullivan Canyon toward the coast. This land, a portion of the original 1838 holdings of Francisco Marquez, stretched across a mesa and became known as the "Riviera section". Will Rogers , who had bought much of this land as an investment, later donated it to
1521-480: Was understood in the 1940s–1950s as the area around the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood , where the broadcasting facilities of all four major radio networks were located. In the 1970s, the area between Gardner Street and Western Avenue was a center for street prostitution . Shortly after a much publicized incident in late June 1995, police raids drove out the majority of prostitutes on
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