Culver City Real Estate

About Culver City Real Estate

Culver City is centrally located, just 15 to 20 minutes from Marina Del Rey,   Beverly Hills, Santa Monica or The Pacific Ocean where the 405 (San Diego) and 10 (Santa Monica) freeways intersect eight miles West of Downtown Los Angeles, two miles Northeast of The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Culver City's elevation is 94 feet above sea level at 34.00 degrees North 118.39 degrees West.

Neighborhoods

During the 1990s, Higuera residents decided to call themselves "Rancho Higuera" and blocked through traffic with neighborhood protection measures like diverters and traffic circles. Culver City contains 17,032 Households. Population Distribution: White 52%, Hispanic 23%, Asian 13%, African-American 11% and Other 1%. Culver City operates its own Police Department, Fire Department and Bus Line. Culver city homeowners have a huge variety of shopping choices including the Fox Hills Mall 140 shops, Target, Circuit City, Office Depot, Toys R Us, Best Buys and Staples, and at least 5 automobile dealerships.

Culver City, CA Real Estate

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Employment

Many Culver City homeowners work in the technology, media and entertainment industries with a median income of $72,662 as of 2001.

Education

Culver City operates its own School District with 5 elementary schools, one middle school, one high school. Culver city is also home to 6 private grade schools and one community college including The Pepperdine University Plaza in Culver City, CA, Culver City Education Foundation, Turning Point School, PTA Book, The Willows Community School, Culver City Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, Echo Horizon School, West LA College and the ERAS Center. 84.1% of Culver city residents are high school graduates and 35% have at least a bachelors degree.

Climate

The climate for Culver City is Perfect without any extremes in temperatures from season to season. Winter temperatures average in the middle 50s and summers average at around 70 degrees F with an average rainfall in January of 3.57 inches.

History

Spanish Explorers had claimed California as early as the 1500s. In 1769 King Carlos III of Spain mandated colonization. Father Junipero Serra started establishment of the missions, which functioned as centers of activity from San Diego to the north, between 1769 and 1823. Native Americans from the area near the San Gabriel Mission (est.1771), called The Gabrielinos, frequented the area for hunting.

In 1781, "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles" was settled which later became The City of Los Angeles. Families came on different expeditions to settled in the La Ballona Valley. Soldiers, Francisco Salvador Lugo and José Manuel Machado and his wife, came on Rivera's 1774 trip from Sinaloa, Mexico. Lugo was present at the founding of the pueblo of Los Angeles in 1781. Jose Machado's  brother Ygnacio Machado, tried to acquire land near the pueblo but was unsuccessful, so he  decided to settle in this valley. He and two partners, Felipe Talamantes and his son Tomás raised cattle on Rancho La Ballona, established in 1819.

Culver City was formed nearly 100 years later from portions of the 14,000 acre Rancho La Ballona (Machado/Talamantes property) and Rincón de Los Bueyes (Higuera/Lopez property) in a 1.2 square mile area, along a transportation route, alongside railroad tracks, halfway between the growing pueblo of Los Angeles and Abbot Kinney's resort of Venice. In those days one could catch a "Red Car" downtown to Los Angeles, or to Abbot Kinney's resort of Venice. Harry Culver's dream city would balance the residential with commercial economy and started plans for the city named in his honor in 1913. Culver City, incorporated in 1917, as a "general law city," General law cities, now an outdated form of city government, derived their power from acts of the State Legislature.

Early on, the trustees concentrated the city's formation and employees were hired handle the business of the city. The Fire and Police Departments were established. The economic balance was underway, the studios formed an economic base. The Honers family built Western Stove north of La Ballona Creek, the first manufacturing plant in 1922, on Hays Street (presently National Boulevard). The city had started growing and the  Prohibition spawned bootlegging and nightclubs which appeared around the city in the 1920s and 1930s. Paul Helms started construction on his well known Helms Bakeries in 1930 on Washington Boulevard and Hayden Industrial Tract was established in the '40s. Automobile dealerships replaced the nightclubs on Washington Boulevard in the '50s. Over the years, over forty annexations increased Culver City's size to about five square miles. By the year 2000, the city had quadrupled in size and became a community of nearly 40,000 residents.

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