Culver City, California Culver City is a city located in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 38,816. Since the 1920s, Culver City has been a major center for motion picture and later television production, in part because it was the home of MGM Studios. The city is now home to the headquarters facilities for National Public Radio West and for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Culver City is the first community on the west side of Los Angeles with free public Internet access. Town Plaza is the hub of a vibrant new downtown that attracts tourists, film industry workers, shoppers, and business people. History Culver City was founded by Harry Culver in 1913 and the city was incorporated in 1917. The first film studio in Culver City was built by Thomas Ince in 1918. In the 1920s, silent film comedy producer Hal Roach and Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) would build studios in Culver City. During Prohibition, speakeasies and nightclubs such as the Cotton Club lined Washington Boulevard near the studios; as with West Hollywood to the north, their presence was a major factor in the city's resistance of annexation by Los Angeles. In the 1960s, much of the MGM lot was sold off to build condominiums and gated townhouse communities. The decline of neighboring South Central Los Angeles brought gang and narcotics problems to Culver City in the 1970s, and for some time Culver City (especially the city's eastern end) was considered a relatively undesirable area. However, in the 1990s, it launched a successful revitalization program in which it renovated its downtown as well as several shopping centers in the Sepulveda Boulevard corridor near Fox Hills Mall. Around the same time, the relocation of Sony's motion picture operations to the former MGM studios at Washington Boulevard and Overland Avenue also brought much-needed jobs to the city. Although property crime is still an issue (as in most areas of Los Angeles), Culver City is now a diverse, prosperous middle-class community. Roman Catholic Holy Cross Cemetery and Jewish Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery contain the remains of many celebrities and local residents.

Neighborhoods Sunkist Park Veteransl Park Carlson Park Hayden Tract Culver Crest Rancho Higuera Geography The city is surrounded by the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Mar Vista, West Los Angeles, Palms and Beverlywood to the north; Westchester to the south; the Baldwin Hills and Ladera Heights unincorporated areas to the east; and the L.A. neighborhoods of Venice and Playa Vista to the west, along with the unincorporated area of Marina Del Rey. The major geographic feature of Culver City is Ballona Creek, which runs northeast to southwest through most of the city before it drains into Santa Monica Bay in Marina Del Rey. Culver City is served by the San Diego, Santa Monica, and Marina freeways. Since the early 1980s, plans have been in the works to begin light rail service from downtown Los Angeles to Culver City on the former Pacific Electric Railroad right-of-way along Exposition and National Boulevards, but lawsuits by Cheviot Hills residents over noise issues have delayed the project for a quarter-century. As of this writing (October 2004), the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority does not plan to begin work on the project until 2007. Culver City is located at 34°0'28" North, 118°24'3" West (34.007761, -118.400905). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.3 km² (5.1 mi²). 13.2 km² (5.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.39% water.  For City demographics, crime rates etc. please click here Useful Culver City Links Ballona Creek Renaissance Brotman Medical Center Culver City Chamber of Commerce Culver Hotel Culver City Parent Teachers Association (PTA) Culver City Public Library Culver City Rotary Club Culver City Unified School District West Los Angeles College Home Page

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