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Playa del Rey: Ballona Wetlands and Creek, 1902 Playa del Rey lagoon, hotel, pavilion and pier, c. 1908. Lower Playa del Rey was originally wetlands and sand dune soil, but natural flooding was halted by levees made of earthen soil, boulders and reinforced concrete with a soft-bottom submerged soil that promotes both tidal flow in good weather and facilitated the flow of freshwater into the ...
The Dickinson and Gillespie Building, is located at 200 Culver Boulevard in downtown Playa Del Rey, California, in the City of Los Angeles.This two-story commercial building, created in 1922, was an extensive remodel of the Hotel Playa, a hotel opened in 1906 on the same site.
The Park to Playa Trail in Los Angeles County, California is a 13-mile (21 km) pedestrian and bicycle route that connects the Baldwin Hills parklands to the Pacific Ocean (Playa is beach in Spanish). According to the Los Angeles Times, “Good views of L.A. are guaranteed on the dirt-and-paved track from Baldwin Hills to Playa del Rey.” [1]
On the occasion of the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the L.A. Times published a guide to Los Angeles' farms for visitors. The guide mentioned that "Venice-Playa Del Rey-Cienega" was a key district for market gardening, especially of summer celery, and mentioned intensive cultivation practices that were getting three or four crops out of ...
State Route 90 (SR 90) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that consists of two unconnected pieces in Greater Los Angeles.. Most of the western portion of SR 90 is the Marina Freeway, a short freeway in southwestern Los Angeles and the nearby suburbs, linking Marina del Rey to the rest of Greater Los Angeles.
At one recent death cafe, Lui recalled, there were 30 people, “and that was a little too much.” Michael Allison, 62, laughs a little while sharing with the group of participants in the death cafe.
The branch line was built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, [2] [3] opening in June 1887 from Inglewood to Port Ballona (on the site of today’s Playa del Rey This section is an excerpt from California Central Railway § Los Angeles and Santa Monica Railroad .
Jefferson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles and Culver City, California.Its eastern terminus is at Central Avenue east of Exposition Park.At its entrance to Culver City, it splits with National Boulevard.