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Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,779. Since the 1920s, Culver City has been a center for film and later television production, best known as the home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. From 1932 to 1986, it was the headquarters for the Hughes Aircraft Company. National Public Radio West and Sony Pictures Entertainment have headquarters in the city. The city was named after its founder, Harry Culver. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with the unincorporated area of Ladera Heights. Over the years, it has annexed more than 40 pieces of adjoining land and now comprises about five square miles (13 km2).

Culver City, California
City
City of Culver City
Culver City sign at sunset in October 2010
Culver City sign at sunset in October 2010
Flag of Culver City, California
Flag
Official seal of Culver City, California
Seal
Motto(s): 
"The Heart of Screenland"
Location within Los Angeles County
Location within Los Angeles County
Coordinates: 34°0′28″N 118°24′3″W / 34.00778°N 118.40083°W / 34.00778; -118.40083Coordinates: 34°0′28″N 118°24′3″W / 34.00778°N 118.40083°W / 34.00778; -118.40083
Country United States
State California
County Los Angeles
IncorporatedSeptember 20, 1917[1]
Named forHarry Culver
Government
 • TypeCouncil-manager
 • MayorDaniel Lee
 • Vice MayorAlbert Vera
 • City CouncilGöran Eriksson
Alex Fisch
Yasmine-Imani McMorrin
 • City ManagerJohn M. Nachbar[2]
Area
[3]
 • Total5.14 sq mi (13.31 km2)
 • Land5.11 sq mi (13.24 km2)
 • Water0.03 sq mi (0.07 km2)  0.54%
Elevation
[4]
95 ft (29 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total40,779
 • Density7,977.11/sq mi (3,080.15/km2)
Time zoneUTC−8 (Pacific Time Zone)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−7 (PDT)
ZIP Codes
90230–90233, 90066[5]
Area codes310/424[6]
FIPS code06-17568
GNIS feature IDs1652695, 2410276
Websitewww.culvercity.org

Contents

  • 1 History
    • 1.1 Early history
    • 1.2 Camp Latham
    • 1.3 Culver City
    • 1.4 Hughes Aircraft Company
    • 1.5 The studios (1960s, 1970s and 1980s)
    • 1.6 Rebirth of downtown (1990s and 2000s)
  • 2 Geography
    • 2.1 Architecture
    • 2.2 Climate
  • 3 Demographics
  • 4 Economy
    • 4.1 Largest employers
    • 4.2 Movie and television production
    • 4.3 Businesses
  • 5 Arts and culture
    • 5.1 Theaters
    • 5.2 Museums
    • 5.3 Cemeteries
    • 5.4 Churches
    • 5.5 Library
  • 6 Parks and recreation
  • 7 Government
  • 8 Education
    • 8.1 Primary and secondary schools
    • 8.2 Colleges and universities
    • 8.3 Other
  • 9 Transportation
    • 9.1 Transit
    • 9.2 Bike routes
    • 9.3 Air travel
    • 9.4 Freeways
  • 10 Public services
  • 11 Neighborhoods
  • 12 Sister cities
  • 13 Notable people
  • 14 See also
  • 15 References
  • 16 External links

HistoryEdit

Early historyEdit

Archaeological evidence suggests a human presence in the area of present-day Culver City since at least 8000 BC.[7] The region was the homeland of the Tongva-Gabrieliño Native Americans. For centuries, native people lived in areas currently part of and surrounding Culver City.[8][9][10] California's native people were massacred by waves of Spanish, Mexican and Euro-American invaders through a combination of slavery, disease, relocation, forced labor, imprisonment, broken treaties and a genocidal war of extermination, including paid bounties for dead “Indians”.[11] The Spanish and Mexican governments offered concessions and land grants from 1785 to 1846 forming the Ranchos of California. Culver City was founded on the lands of the former Rancho La Ballona and Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes.[12] When Culver City was founded, native, Hispanic or Latino people were not allowed to buy property.[13]

Camp LathamEdit

In 1861, during the American Civil War, Camp Latham was established by the 1st California Infantry under Col. James H. Carleton and the 1st California Cavalry under Lt. Col. Benjamin F. Davis. Named for California Senator Milton S. Latham, the camp was the first staging area for the training of Union troops and their operations in Southern California. It was located on land of the Rancho La Ballona, on the South side of Ballona Creek, near what is now the intersection of Jefferson and Overland Boulevards.[14][15][16] The post was later moved to Camp Drum, which became the Drum Barracks.[17]

Culver CityEdit

 
The site of Culver City, 1913

Harry Culver first attempted to establish Culver City in 1913. It was officially incorporated on September 20, 1917, and named after its founder.[18] His first ads read "All roads lead to Culver City", indicating several main transportation routes led to the city.[8] While this slogan might seem welcoming to all, the city was explicitly founded as a whites-only sundown town, as were most of the suburbs and towns outside the downtown and Central Avenue districts of Los Angeles.[19] Culver ran ads promoting “this model little white city”, while his close associate, Guy M. Rush, promoted lot sales “restricted to Caucasian race”.[20][21] The city also at times excluded people of non-Christian religious faiths.[13]

 
This 1915 advertisement in the Los Angeles Times for the Culver City subdivision displays an image of a Culver City Call front page.

The weekly Culver City Call was the first newspaper in the community. The paper was founded in 1915.

The first film studio in Culver City was built by Thomas Ince in 1918 for The Triangle Motion Picture Company. Silent film comedy producer Hal Roach built his studios there in 1919, and Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) took over the Triangle studio complex in 1924.[22] During Prohibition, speakeasies and nightclubs such as the Cotton Club lined Washington Boulevard.

Culver Center, one of Southern California's first shopping malls, was completed in 1950[23] on Venice Boulevard near the Overland Avenue intersection. Many other retail stores, including a Rite Aid and several banks and restaurants, have occupied the center since then.[24]

Hughes Aircraft CompanyEdit

Hughes Aircraft opened its Culver City plant in July 1941. There the company built the H-4 Hercules transport (commonly called the "Spruce Goose"). Hughes was also an active subcontractor in World War II. It developed and patented a flexible feed chute for faster loading of machine guns on B-17 bombers, and manufactured electric booster drives for machine guns. Hughes produced more ammunition belts than any other American manufacturer, and built 5,576 wings and 6,370 rear fuselage sections for Vultee BT-13 trainers.[25][26]

Hughes grew after the war, and in 1953 Howard Hughes donated all his stock in the company to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. After he died in 1976, the institute sold the company, which made it the second-best-endowed medical research foundation in the world.[27]

The studios (1960s, 1970s and 1980s)Edit

The Hal Roach Studios were demolished in 1963. In the late 1960s, much of the MGM backlot acreage (lot 3 and other property on Jefferson Boulevard), and the nearby 28.5 acres (11.5 ha) known as RKO Forty Acres, once owned by RKO Pictures and later Desilu Productions, were sold by their owners. In 1976 the sets were razed to make way for redevelopment. Today the RKO site is the southern expansion of the Hayden Industrial Tract, while the MGM property has been converted into a subdivision and a shopping center known as Raintree Plaza.

Rebirth of downtown (1990s and 2000s)Edit

In the early 1990s, Culver City launched a successful revitalization program in which it renovated its downtown as well as several shopping centers in the Sepulveda Boulevard corridor near Westfield Culver City. Around the same time, Sony's motion picture subsidiaries, Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, moved into the Lorimar Studios lot which was renamed Columbia Studios in 1990 and took on its current name, Sony Pictures Studios a year later.

The influx of many art galleries and restaurants to the eastern part of the city, formally designated the Culver City Art District,[28] prompted The New York Times in 2007 to praise the new art scene and call Culver City a "nascent Chelsea."[29]

In 2012 Roger Vincent of the Los Angeles Times said that, according to local observers, the city's "reputation as a pedestrian-friendly destination with upscale restaurants, gastropubs and a thriving art scene is less than a decade old".[30]

GeographyEdit

The city is surrounded by the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Mar Vista and Palms to the north; Westchester to the south; Mid-City, West Adams, and Baldwin Hills to the east; the Ladera Heights unincorporated area to the southeast; and the L.A. neighborhoods of Venice and Playa Vista to the west, along with the unincorporated area of Marina Del Rey.

The two primary ZIP codes for Culver City are 90230 and 90232. Because ZIP codes do not necessarily follow city boundaries, a portion of Culver City is in the 90066 ZIP code, which also serves some of the Mar Vista neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles.

Culver City's major geographic feature is Ballona Creek, which runs northeast to southwest through most of the city before it drains into Santa Monica Bay in Marina Del Rey.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13.2 km2), over 99% of which is land.

ArchitectureEdit

The architecture of Culver City reflects its history as an early location for film studios and, more recently, as a site for architectural experimentation, particularly for the projects of Eric Owen Moss at the Hayden Tract. The internationally renowned architecture offices Studio Pali Fekete and Morphosis are also headquartered here. Styles represented include Mission and Colonial Revival from the city's early days, to the PWA Moderne of the 1930s, to modern, postmodern, and deconstructivist styles from the past few decades. Architectural landmarks include:[31]

  • Ivy Substation (1907), a Mission Revival building that now houses the Action Theatre Group
  • Culver Studios (1918-1920), offices in the style of a Colonial Revival mansion
  • Culver Hotel (Curlett and Beelman, 1924), a six-story brick flatiron
  • Helms Bakery (E. L. Bruner, 1930), in monumental PWA Moderne
  • Irving Thalberg Administration Building (Claud Beelman, 1939), a Moderne and Beaux Arts structure within the MGM (now Sony) campus
  • Kirk Douglas Theatre (Carl G. Moeller, 1946)
  • St. Augustine Catholic Church (J. Earl Trudeau, 1957), 3850 Jasmine Ave., a Gothic Revival church
  • Robert Frost Auditorium (Flewelling and Moody, 1964), a late modern auditorium at Culver City High School
  • Filmland Corporate Center (now One Culver) (Maxwell Starkman, 1986), 10000 Washington Blvd., a late modern corporate office building
  • The Hayden Tract (various buildings, Eric Owen Moss, 1988 to present), centered on 3520 Hayden Ave.
  • Paramount Laundry Building (Eric Owen Moss, 1989), 3960 Ince Blvd.
  • Child Care Center (Ehrlich Architects, 1994), 3845 Clarington Ave.
  • Bow Truss Building (Ehrlich Architects, 1994), 10101 Washington Blvd
  • Studio Pali Fekete Architects (Studio Pali Fakete, 2006), 8609 W. Washington Blvd.
  • Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Visitor Center (Safdie Rabines Architects, 2009), 6300 Hetzler Rd.
  • Morphosis Los Angeles Offices (Morphosis, 2012), 3440 Wesley St.
  • Platform (Abramson Teiger, 2016), centered on 8850 Washington Blvd.

ClimateEdit

Culver City has a borderline semi-arid (Köppen: Bsk) and Mediterranean climate (Csb/Csa), typical of coastal southern California.

Climate data for Culver City, California
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 91
(33) 		92
(33) 		93
(34) 		105
(41) 		102
(39) 		110
(43) 		107
(42) 		104
(40) 		111
(44) 		106
(41) 		100
(38) 		91
(33) 		111
(44)
Average high °F (°C) 66.6
(19.2) 		66.5
(19.2) 		68.2
(20.1) 		70.8
(21.6) 		72.0
(22.2) 		74.7
(23.7) 		78.0
(25.6) 		79.1
(26.2) 		78.4
(25.8) 		75.8
(24.3) 		70.6
(21.4) 		65.9
(18.8) 		72.2
(22.3)
Daily mean °F (°C) 57.3
(14.1) 		57.5
(14.2) 		59.5
(15.3) 		61.9
(16.6) 		64.3
(17.9) 		67.5
(19.7) 		70.6
(21.4) 		71.3
(21.8) 		70.3
(21.3) 		66.9
(19.4) 		61.3
(16.3) 		56.6
(13.7) 		63.8
(17.6)
Average low °F (°C) 48.0
(8.9) 		48.5
(9.2) 		50.8
(10.4) 		53.1
(11.7) 		56.6
(13.7) 		60.3
(15.7) 		63.1
(17.3) 		63.6
(17.6) 		62.2
(16.8) 		57.9
(14.4) 		51.9
(11.1) 		47.3
(8.5) 		55.3
(12.9)
Record low °F (°C) 24
(−4) 		31
(−1) 		32
(0) 		37
(3) 		40
(4) 		43
(6) 		47
(8) 		46
(8) 		45
(7) 		40
(4) 		33
(1) 		30
(−1) 		24
(−4)
Average rainfall inches (mm) 3.19
(81) 		3.25
(83) 		2.66
(68) 		0.58
(15) 		0.26
(6.6) 		0.04
(1.0) 		0.02
(0.51) 		0.07
(1.8) 		0.08
(2.0) 		0.33
(8.4) 		0.94
(24) 		1.90
(48) 		13.32
(338)
Average rainy days (≥ 0.01 inch) 5.7 5.3 5.8 1.7 0.7 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.6 1.1 1.9 4.0 27.5
Source 1: NOAA[32]
Source 2: The Weather Channel[33]

DemographicsEdit

Historical population
Census Pop. %±
1920503—
19305,6691,027.0%
19408,97658.3%
195019,720119.7%
196032,16363.1%
197034,4517.1%
198038,13910.7%
199038,7931.7%
200038,8160.1%
201038,8830.2%
202040,7794.9%
U.S. Decennial Census[34]

EconomyEdit

Corporations with headquarters in Culver City include Beats Audio, MedMen, National Public Radio West, NantHealth, Talespin Reality Labs, Sweetgreen and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Largest employersEdit

 
Culver City's Kirk Douglas Theater at night

According to the city's 2019–20 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[35] the top employers in the city were:

# Employer # of Employees
1 Sony Pictures Entertainment 3,000
2 Westfield Culver City 1,500
3 Southern California Hospital at Culver City formerly Brotman Medical Center 1,116
4 Culver City Unified School District 760
5 City of Culver City 798
6 Goldrich & Kest Industries, LLC 670
7 Target 484
8 Symantec 373
9 Security Industry Specialists 291

Movie and television productionEdit

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MGM Studios (now Sony Pictures Studios), 1922

Hundreds of movies have been produced on the lots of Culver City's studios: Sony Pictures Studios (originally MGM Studios), Culver Studios, and the former Hal Roach Studios. These include The Wizard of Oz, The Thin Man, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, the Tarzan series, and the original King Kong. More recent films made in Culver City include Grease, Raging Bull, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Man with Two Brains, City Slickers, Air Force One, Wag the Dog and Contact. Television series made on Culver City sets have included Jeopardy!, Las Vegas, Gunsmoke, Cougar Town, Mad About You, Lassie, Hogan's Heroes, Batman, The Green Hornet, Arrested Development, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Nanny, Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef, the syndicated version of Wheel of Fortune and Tosh. O. The television series The Green Hornet featured Bruce Lee as Kato; he resided in Culver City during its production.

John Travolta's "Stranded at the Drive-In" sequence in Grease was filmed at the Studio Drive-In on the corner of Jefferson and Sepulveda. It served as a set for many other films, including Pee-wee's Big Adventure. The theatre was closed in 1993 and demolished in 1998; it is now a housing subdivision featuring large homes on small lots, as well as the Kayne-ERAS center, a school and community center for the disabled and mentally challenged.

The historic Hull Building, 9543 Culver Boulevard at the northwest corner of Washington Boulevard and Watseka Avenue featured as Flynn's Arcade in the 1982 movie, Tron.

Culver City's streets have been featured in many films and television series. Since much of the architecture has not changed in decades, particularly in residential areas, the nostalgic sitcom The Wonder Years set many of its outdoor scenes in Culver City. The 1970s–80s series CHiPs produced at nearby MGM studios, also featured many chase scenes through the streets. The Nicolas Cage film Matchstick Men included scenes made at Veterans Memorial Park, which was also featured in the opening scenes of the sitcom The Hogan Family.

The Aviator, a film about Howard Hughes, featured several mentions of Culver City in connection with Hughes. Scenes from Bewitched (2005) with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell were also filmed in the Culver City streets. The film Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) starring Jim Carrey was filmed there. The closing aerial sequence of Get Shorty (1995) starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito is also filmed in Culver City, at Sony Pictures Studios. Additionally, scenes of Superbad (2007) starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera were filmed in areas surrounding Culver City High School.

In 2010, the films Killers and Dinner for Schmucks were filmed in Culver City. In 2011, Lincoln Lawyer, Moneyball, Horrible Bosses and Jack and Jill were released, all of which were filmed in Culver City. Think Like a Man and The Campaign were filmed in Culver City and released in 2012.

In 2017 Amazon Studios announces plans to occupy 280,000 SF at the studios by 2020, and in 2018 Hackman Capital Partners begins construction at the studios, a transformation that will more than double its size to 720,850 SF. Amazon Studios has taken approximately 530,000 square feet at The Culver Studios, including the company’s existing space in the historic Mansion and bungalows. [36]

BusinessesEdit

  • Culver Hotel:[37] A 1924 landmark pie-slice-shaped hotel downtown. Many of the cast of The Wizard of Oz stayed here during filming of the movie in 1939. The hijinks of that period, including the hotel's being taken over by the "Munchkins," were featured in the 1981 movie Under the Rainbow. Formerly owned by Charlie Chaplin, who sold it (or lost it) to John Wayne during a poker game, the hotel has housed many stars including Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Red Skelton, Buster Keaton and Ronald Reagan.
  • Helms Bakery[38]
  • Westfield Culver City (formerly Fox Hills Mall) is a shopping mall owned by the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. Its anchor stores are Best Buy, JCPenney, Macy's, and Target.
  • Beats Electronics
  • Big Frame and its subsidiaries Wonderly and Forefront.TV
  • Disney Digital Network
  • MedMen
  • NPR West[39]
  • Nuclear Blast
 
Sony Pictures movie and television studio entrance off Culver Boulevard
  • Sony Pictures Studios
  • The Ripped Bodice, the only romance novel bookstore in the northern hemisphere[40]

Arts and cultureEdit

At least two Culver City landmarks, the Douglas Olmsted Freeman-designed Lion’s Fountain in Town Plaza (adjacent to the Culver Hotel) and the 94-foot high “Rainbow” sculpture by Tony Tasset at the Sony lot nod to The Wizard of Oz (1939), which was filmed in Culver City.

TheatersEdit

 
Actors' Gang at Ivy Substation in Media Park
 
Historic Helms Bakery on Washington Blvd.
 
Mural on facade of Jackson Market by the Siqueiros Foundation of the Arts spearheaded by Anna Siqueiros, Ernesto De la Rosa and Virginia Val in the year 2016(est. 1925), Jackson Avenue.
  • The Actors' Gang[41] at the Ivy Substation (within the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles, but on long-term lease to Culver City)
  • Kirk Douglas Theatre,[42] featuring the Center Theater Group

MuseumsEdit

  • The Wende Museum[43] possesses a collection of Soviet and East German visual art and everyday artifacts to promote an understanding of Soviet art, history and culture between 1945 and 1991.
 
Piece of the Berlin Wall outside the Wende Museum on Culver Blvd.
  • Museum of Jurassic Technology is an unusual collection of exhibits and objects with varying and uncertain degrees of authenticity. It has a Culver City street address but is within the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles.

CemeteriesEdit

  • Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
  • Holy Cross Cemetery

ChurchesEdit

  • St. Augustine Catholic Church

LibraryEdit

The County of Los Angeles Public Library operates the Julian Dixon Culver City Branch on Overland Ave.

Parks and recreationEdit

The City of Culver City Parks and Recreation department operates 14 outdoor parks within city limits.[44]

Main article: List of Culver City municipal parks

See also: Park to Playa Trail, Media Park, Culver Boulevard Median Bike Path, Ballona Wetlands

GovernmentEdit

Culver City has a five-member city council.

In Los Angeles County, Culver City is in the 2nd Supervisorial District, represented by Holly Mitchell.[45]

In the California State Legislature, Culver City is in the 30th Senate District, represented by Democrat Sydney Kamlager, and in the 54th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Isaac Bryan.[46]

In the United States House of Representatives, Culver City is in California's 37th congressional district, represented by Democrat Karen Bass.[47]

EducationEdit

Primary and secondary schoolsEdit

Culver City has its own school district, Culver City Unified School District. It has five elementary schools, a middle school, two high schools (regular and continuation), a Community Day School, an Office of Child Development, and an Adult School. There are three elementary schools that are part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. In addition, there is an Independent Study program where students of elementary, middle school, or high school age can make a weekly appointment to drop off and pick up homework, which is to be completed throughout the week.

STAR Prep Academy, a private middle and high school, was established in 2004 and shares its campus with the STAR ECO Station, an exotic wildlife rescue center. It is one of the few schools in the United States where students can work with exotic and endangered animals daily as part of their curriculum.[48]

The Willows Community School is a private primary, elementary and middle school, grades DK through 8, established in 1994 on Higuera Street.

Turning Point School is an independent primary, elementary and middle school, serving students from 2 years 9 months through grade 8, on National Blvd.

Kayne Eras Center is on Machado Road. In July 2008, the Kayne Eras Center merged with the Exceptional Children's Foundation, creating the only agency in Southern California that provides a continuum of services to individuals with disabilities from birth through adulthood..

Wildwood School is a private primary, elementary, middle and high school, grades K through 12, established in 1971 on McManus Avenue.

Echo Horizon School is a private primary, elementary, and middle school, grades Pre-K through 6, established in 1985 on McManus Avenue.

Culver City High School's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) is a "specialized secondary program" created in 1996 through a grant from the state of California with major support from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The program offers classes in departments of Music, Theatre, Visual Art, Film, and Dance that occur after the regular school day at Culver City HS has ended.

Colleges and universitiesEdit

  • Antioch University Los Angeles is a small nonprofit liberal arts college in Culver City's Corporate Pointe district.
  • West Los Angeles College[49] is a two-year community college in unincorporated Los Angeles County, adjacent to Culver City.
  • UCLA IDEAS campus is a Suprastudio specialising in Architecture pertaining to entertainment, Mobility, Urban design and Technology.[50]

OtherEdit

The Los Angeles County Probation Department's Training Academy is on the campus of West L.A. College.

Culver City has the Los Angeles area campus of the Gemological Institute of America.

TransportationEdit

TransitEdit

The Culver City station of the Los Angeles Metro E Line sits at the Culver Junction near Venice and Robertson Boulevards in Culver City. The E Line provides a light rail connection from Culver City to Downtown Los Angeles to the east and Downtown Santa Monica to the west, mostly following the right-of-way that the Pacific Electric Santa Monica Air Line used, also known as the Exposition Blvd line by PE. Culver City Station was the western terminus of what was then known as the Expo Line from its opening on June 20, 2012, to the opening of Expo Line phase two on May 20, 2016.[51]

Culver CityBus was founded on March 4, 1928, making it the second oldest municipal bus line in California[52] and the oldest public transit bus system still operating in Los Angeles County.[53] Big Blue Bus was founded on April 14, 1928.[53][54] Culver CityBus operates seven regular bus lines as well as a short-term downtown circulator shuttle.

The Culver City Transit Center in the Westfield Culver City parking serves as a bus depot for three Culver CityBus lines and two Metro Los Angeles bus lines. The Washington Fairfax Hub just outside city limits under the 10 freeway connects residents to seven bus lines, two operated by Culver CityBus and five operated by Metro.

The Baldwin Hills Parklands Link is a shuttle service operated by Los Angeles County that stops at Stoneview Nature Center on weekends only.

Bike routesEdit

 
Elenda Bikeway, bioswale and two-lane protected section beginning at Culver Blvd.

The city is served by multiple separated bike paths:

  • Culver Boulevard Median bike route
  • Ballona Creek bike path, connecting to the Park to Playa Trail
  • Expo Line bike route
  • Elenda Street bikeway, 12-block route between Ballona Creek Pedestrian Bridge and Washington Boulevard
  • Separated bike and bus lanes through downtown Culver City, part of the MoveCulverCity complete streets initiative[55]

Air travelEdit

The city is served by the Los Angeles International Airport, about 7 miles (11 km) south of the city.

FreewaysEdit

Culver City is served by Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway), Interstate 10 (Santa Monica Freeway), and California State Route 90 (Marina Freeway).

Public servicesEdit

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Culver City.[56] The department operates the Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center in Santa Monica, serving Culver City.[57]

The United States Postal Service operates locations at 6695 Green Valley Circle in the Fox Hills neighborhood and at 9942 Culver Boulevard in downtown Culver City.[58][59]

Culver City is served by its own police force, the Culver City Police Department, at 4040 Duquesne Avenue.[60]

Culver City's fire department (ISO class 1), the Culver City Fire Department, has its headquarters at 9600 Culver Boulevard.[61] CCFD operates three stations and a fire training facility.

NeighborhoodsEdit

See also: Category:Neighborhoods in Culver City, California

The City of Culver City recognizes 15 neighborhoods within city limits.[62]

  1. Blair Hills
  2. Blanco-Culver Crest
  3. Clarkdale
  4. Culver West
  5. Downtown Culver City
  6. Fox Hills
  7. Jefferson
  8. Lucerne-Higuera
  9. McLaughlin
  10. McManus
  11. Park East
  12. Park West
  13. Studio Village
  14. Sunkist Park (El Marino)
  15. Washington Culver (Veterans Park)

Sister citiesEdit

Culver City has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:

  •   Capo d'Orlando, Messina, Sicily, Italy[63]
  •   Iksan, South Korea
  •   Kaizuka, Japan
  •   Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  •   Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico

Notable peopleEdit

  • Art Alexakis, musician, founder and lead singer of the band Everclear[64]
  • Drew Barrymore, actress[65]
  • Shayla Beesley, actress
  • Big Boy, radio host
  • Jack Black, actor
  • Jackson Browne, singer, songwriter, and musician
  • Michael Bumpus, NFL player, Seattle Seahawks[66]
  • Gary Carter, Major League Baseball player, Hall of Famer[67]
  • Michael Chacon, professional fixed-gear bike rider
  • Tiffany Cohen, double-gold champion in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  • Glenn Cowan (1952–2004), table tennis player
  • Dee Dee Davis, actress[68]
  • Jeff Fisher, NFL coach[69]
  • Tim Foli, Major League Baseball player[70]
  • Dick Gautier, actor
  • Kron Gracie, son of Rickson Gracie, teaches Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in town
  • Linda Gray, film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer
  • Charles Herbert, actor[71]
  • Win Headley, NFL and CFL player
  • Kelly Lytle Hernández, Professor and Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), author of several books, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient
  • Howard Hughes, founder of Hughes Aircraft[27]
  • Helen Hunt, Oscar-winning actress[72]
  • HuskyStarcraft, aka Mike Lamond, YouTube commentator
  • Darrin Jackson, Major League Baseball player and MLB sportscaster
  • Taran Killam, actor and comedian
  • Tim Layana, Major League Baseball player
  • Merry Lepper, set world record marathon time for women, December 16, 1963, in Culver City.[73]
  • Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress and poet
  • Ron Mael, musician, member of Sparks
  • Bill Monning, California State Senator[74]
  • Michael Richards, actor and comedian[75]
  • Michelle Horn, actress
  • Michael Ruppert, journalist and former LAPD officer
  • Ryan Sherriff, Major League Baseball player
  • Dick Stuart, Major League Baseball player[76]
  • Robert Trujillo, bass player with Suicidal Tendencies, Ozzy Osbourne, and Metallica[77]
  • Gwen Verdon, four-time Tony Award-winning actress[78]

See alsoEdit

  •  Greater Los Angeles portal
  • Culver City Call, newspaper
  • Westside (Los Angeles County)

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