Playa del Rey, Los Angeles Map showing the locale of Playa del Rey, Los A Playa del Rey is positioned in Los Angeles Playa del Rey - Playa del Rey Playa del Rey (Spanish for "Beach of the King" or "King's beach") is a beachside improve in the Westside of the town/city of Los Angeles, California.
Playa del Rey is a coastal neighborhood and a precinct of City of Los Angeles.
These dunes run alongside to the coastline, from Playa del Rey, all the way south to Palos Verdes.
The improve is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Marina del Rey and Ballona Creek to the north, Ballona Wetlands and Playa Vista to the northeast, Westchester to the east, Los Angeles International Airport and El Segundo to the south.
Playa del Rey: Ballona Wetlands and Creek, 1902 In the 1870s, Playa Del Rey was the locale of the first attempt at a dredged harbor in Santa Monica Bay.
Within three years, winter waves brought flooding, but what remained of man's early accomplishments became the Playa Del Rey Lagoon, now a county-wide enhance park. Palisades del Rey (also, Palisades Del Rey) was the name of the initial 1921 neighborhood territory evolution by Dickinson & Gillespie Co.
The business advertised this region of sand dunes as the last stretch of coastal territory in the town/city of Los Angeles to be developed. All of the homes in this region were custom built, many as beach homes owned by Hollywood actors and producers, including Cecil B.
Construction in Playa del Rey surged in 1928 with the evolution of the Del Rey Hills neighborhood in the Eastern part of the improve (to the East of Pershing Drive), and the move of Loyola University (now Loyola Marymount University) to the adjoining improve of Westchester.
The southern portion of the initial Playa del Rey development, which came to be known as "Surfridge," is now vacant.
The City of Los Angeles condemned the southern section of Playa del Rey under the power of eminent domain, and purchased all of the homes. Today one can see only barbed-wire fences protecting vacant territory and old streets where homes once sat.
Playa del Rey in the 1950s and early 1960s was known as a great Los Angeles region "surfing spot", but due to the many modern jetties that were assembled to prevent beach erosion, the good surf is mostly gone.
The beach at the northernmost end of Playa del Rey is still known as "Toes Over Beach", "Toes Beach" or just "Toes" by the small-town surfing community, a name derived from the toes over or Hang Ten surfing maneuver.
Today a bridge between Playa Del Rey and the jetty between Ballona Creek and the Marina is accessible to foot traffic and bicycle traffic, but not to automobiles.
The Beach at Playa del Rey, CA The vast majority of territory in Playa del Rey is zoned for residentiary purposes only.
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Playa del Rey. Playa del Rey lies entirely inside the 11th council precinct of Los Angeles, and is represented on the town/city council by Mike Bonin.
Playa del Rey is inside the Los Angeles Unified School District.
As of 2014, the Wiseburn School District allows parents in Playa del Rey to send their kids to Wiseburn schools on inter-district transfers. Del Rey Hills (now Playa del Rey) 1928 - Los Angeles, California Scripophily.net "Playa del Rey" entry on the Los Angeles Times "Mapping L.A." "Also serving the kids of employees from the encircling aerospace, technology, travel, and entertainment industries, as well as families living in the Westchester, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Mar Vista, and Ladera Heights region on an interdistrict permit transfer." Film Stars of Playa Del Rey; Charles Bickford, by Duke Dukesherer, Examiner.com.
"Playa del Rey: Speed Capital of the World, The Los(t) Angeles Motordrome, 1910-1913" by John Crosse Beach Of The King: The Early History of Playa Del Rey, Westchester, Playa Vista, California by D J Dukesherer.
Playa Del Rey: California by D J Dukesherer.
Photos of the condemned region of Playa del Rey.
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