Culver Boulevard
thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California
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."
Name
Culver was laid out in 1904 as a parallel auto route for 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 been settled upon around 1925, following the annexation of Venice by the city of Los Angeles.
History
The development of what 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, 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 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 the sand.
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