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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The route began as the Los Angeles-Hermosa Beach & Redondo Railway Company, [1] which was succeeded quickly by the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. The first train ran from Culver City to Playa del Rey on Sunday, November 9, 1902. [2]
In fact, Los Angeles was named “Worst Bike City” in the United States by Bicycling magazine in 2018, the reasons being a lack of protective road infrastructure and a car bias that stymies any ...
The Cypress Grove stop was located just east of Alla Junction in what is now the Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California. Based on the coordinates ( 33°59′28″N 118°25′16″W / 33.9911229°N 118.4211888°W / 33.9911229; -118.4211888 ) in the Geographic Names Information System , the stop was at ...
Washington Boulevard is an east-west arterial road in Los Angeles County, California spanning a total of 27.4 miles (44 km). Its western terminus is the Pacific Ocean just west of Pacific Avenue and straddling the border of the Venice Beach and Marina Peninsula neighborhoods of Los Angeles.