San Vicente Boulevard (Santa Monica)

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This article is about the street connecting Santa Monica and Brentwood. For the other San Vicente Boulevard in LA, connecting Sunset Blvd. and Venice Blvd., see San Vicente Boulevard.

San Vicente Boulevard is an east–west street in

Brentwood, in the Westside
region of Los Angeles, California.

Route and addressing

San Vicente is the northernmost primary thoroughfare in Santa Monica. San Vicente begins at

Los Angeles Veterans Administration complex, intersecting Wilshire Boulevard
, where it ends, becoming Federal Avenue and continuing south into West Los Angeles. The entire route carries a wide median with abundant grass and trees, and its only traffic lights between Ocean Avenue and Bundy Drive are at 7th Street and 26th Street.

Intersections with Ocean Avenue and 7th Street in Santa Monica lead down to Santa Monica Canyon and on to the

Pacific Coast Highway. The intersection with 26th Street (north) connects with Sunset Boulevard and Mandeville Canyon. For most of its length, it runs generally parallel and south of Sunset Boulevard and north of Montana Avenue
and Wilshire Boulevard.

Some navigation systems call this street West San Vicente to differentiate it from the other San Vicente Boulevard that intersects Wilshire 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to the east.

Street numbering increases to the west, beginning with the number 11400 at Wilshire Boulevard. The last number on San Vicente Boulevard in Los Angeles' address grid is 13100. On the Santa Monica side, the numbering follows that city's grid, beginning at 2600 and decreasing towards the ocean. At Ocean Avenue, the road terminates at number 100.

Features

San Vicente Boulevard is four lanes wide with a large landscaped median along its entire length, planted with ~120 large Coral trees (Erythrina caffra), along its center. Those in the western section within Los Angeles, between 26th Street and Bringham Avenue, are a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.[1] The median is popular with joggers.

Other features along the boulevard include

The Brentwood Country Mart
at 26th and San Vicente, and the private Brentwood Country Club and golf course.

The Santa Monica and Brentwood neighborhoods north of San Vicente Boulevard often have larger properties with distinctive residences.

History

Built in the early 20th century to run from the Soldiers' Home (

Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica that had previously occupied the area. This tree-lined street was 130 feet (40 m) wide, with trolley lines used by the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway running down its center. It was oiled and surfaced in 1906 and, when completed, "made one of the finest drives in the country."[2]

The Mezzaluna Trattoria, formerly located at 11750 San Vicente Boulevard, was involved in one of Los Angeles' most notorious murders: the

Ronald Goldman
, a waiter at the restaurant, was also murdered at Brown's condominium that night, when he had stopped by to return the eyeglasses Brown's mother had left behind at the restaurant.

15 months later, Goldman's friend and fellow Mezzaluna Trattoria waiter,

Corona del Mar during 1994.[7]

The restaurant's patronage suffered in the wake of the murders and the lengthy

O.J. Simpson murder trial,[8][9] and the establishment closed in 1997. The building now under new ownership, currently is vacant.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Brentwoodcommunitycouncil.org: Brentwood Coral Tree Endowment Fund
  2. ^ Luther A. Ingersoll: Ingersoll's Century History, Santa Monica Bay Cities, 1908
  3. ^ Vincent, Roger (October 21, 2014). "Brentwood restaurant building in limelight during O.J. Simpson case sold". Los Angeles Times.
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    . Unless they were a special brand of surrealist muggers, I can only conclude that something rather fishy occurred that night
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  10. ^ Vincent, Roger (October 21, 2014). "Brentwood restaurant building in limelight during O.J. Simpson case sold". Los Angeles Times.

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