Garage Conversion Culver City, California

Geography

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 Place of Marina Del Rey.

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 Place of 5.1 square miles (13.2 km), over 99% of which is land.

Neighborhoods

The city recognizes 15 neighborhoods within city limits.

Climate

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

History

Early history

Archaeological evidence suggests a human presence in the area of present-day Culver City previously at least 8000 BC. The region was the homeland of the Tongva-Gabrieliño Native Americans. For centuries, native people lived in areas currently ration of and surrounding Culver City. California’s indigenous people were massacred by waves of Spanish, Mexican and Euro-American invaders through a immersion of slavery, disease, relocation, forced labor, imprisonment, broken treaties and a genocidal dogfight of extermination, including paid bounties for dead “Indians”.
The Spanish and Mexican governments offered concessions and estate 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. When Culver City was founded, native, Hispanic or Latino people were not allowed to buy property.

Camp Latham

In 1861, during the American Civil War, Camp Latham was conventional 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 upon land of the Rancho La Ballona, on the south bank of Ballona Creek, near what is now the intersection of Jefferson and Overland Boulevards. The read out was forward-looking moved to Camp Drum, which became the Drum Barracks.

Culver City

Harry Culver first attempted to uphold Culver City in 1913. It was officially incorporated on September 20, 1917, and named after its founder. The Place benefited from pre-existing transportation links; Culver’s first ads read “All roads gain to Culver City”. While this slogan might seem friendly to all, the city was explicitly founded as a whites-only sundown town, as were most of the suburbs and towns external the downtown and Central Avenue districts of Los Angeles. Culver ran ads promoting “this model Tiny white city”, while his close associate, Guy M. Rush, promoted lot sales “restricted to Caucasian race”. The city afterward at epoch excluded people of non-Christian religious faiths.

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 higher than the Triangle studio rarefied in 1924. 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 on Venice Boulevard close the Overland Avenue intersection. Many new retail stores, including a Rite Aid and several banks and restaurants, have occupied the middle since then.

Hughes Aircraft Company

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 afterward an lithe subcontractor during World War II. It developed and patented a lithe feed chute for faster loading of robot guns on B-17 bombers, and manufactured electric booster drives for robot guns. Hughes produced more ammunition belts than any extra American manufacturer, and built 5,576 wings and 6,370 rear fuselage sections for Vultee BT-13 trainers.

Hughes grew after the war, and in 1953 Howard Hughes donated everything his increase 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 inauguration in the world.

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

The Hal Roach Studios were demolished in 1963. In the late 1960s, much of the MGM backlot acreage (lot 3 and other property upon Jefferson Boulevard), and the straightforward 28.5 acres (11.5 ha) known as RKO Forty Acres, once owned by RKO Pictures and sophisticated Desilu Productions, were sold by their owners. In 1976 the sets were razed to make habit 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 middle known as Raintree Plaza.

Rebirth of downtown (1990s and 2000s)

In the beforehand 1990s, Culver City launched a flourishing revitalization program in which it renovated its downtown as competently as several shopping centers in the Sepulveda Boulevard corridor near Westfield Culver City. Around the similar time, Sony’s motion portray 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.

There was an influx of art galleries and restaurants upon the eastern part of the city, which was formally designated the Culver City Art District.