Santa Monica, California City of Santa Monica Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue at sunset Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue at sunset Official seal of Santa Monica, California Santa Monica, California is positioned in the US Santa Monica, California - Santa Monica, California Santa Monica is a beachfront town/city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the town/city of Los Angeles Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, Sawtelle on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south.
The Enumeration Bureau populace for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736.
The Santa Monica Pier remains a prominent and iconic destination. Main article: History of Santa Monica, California Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva citizens .
Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language. The first non-indigenous group to set foot in the region was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portola, who camped near the present-day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3, 1769.
In the 1870s the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connected Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a wharf out into the bay.
Around the start of the 20th century, a burgeoning population of Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice.
A Japanese fishing village was near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in Santa Monica and Venice.
The two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an integral economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community. In the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica (along with neighboring Los Angeles).
The chief Post Office and Barnum Hall (Santa Monica High School auditorium) were also among other WPA projects.
The culmination of the Santa Monica Freeway in 1966 brought the promise of new prosperity, though at the cost of decimating the Pico neighborhood that had been a dominant African American enclave on the Westside.
Beach volleyball is believed to have been advanced by Duke Kahanamoku in Santa Monica amid the 1920s.
Santa Monica Pier entrance A busy day on Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California; the south end is the entrance to Frank Gehry's Santa Monica Place.
It sits on the Santa Monica Pier, which was assembled in 1909.
Bergamot Station is a city-owned art loggia compound that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Santa Monica has three chief shopping districts, Montana Avenue on the north side, the Downtown District in the city's core, and Main Street on the south end.
Santa Monica hosts the annual Santa Monica Film Festival.
The Santa Monica Stairs, a long, steep staircase that leads from north of San Vicente down into Santa Monica Canyon, is a prominent spot for all-natural outside workouts.
Santa Monica defeated the Boston Irish Wolfhounds 57-19 in the Division 1 final, convincingly claiming its second consecutive American title on June 4, 2006, in San Diego.
Every fall the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce hosts The Taste of Santa Monica on the Santa Monica Pier.
Other annual affairs include the Business and Consumer Expo, Sustainable Quality Awards, Santa Monica Cares Health and Wellness Festival, and the State of the City.
The swanky Shutters on the Beach Hotel offers a trip to the famous Santa Monica Farmers Market to select and influence the materials that will turn into that evening's special "Market Dinner." Santa Monica has two hospitals: Saint John's Health Center and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
Santa Monica has a several newspapers and magazines, including the Santa Monica Star, Santa Monica Daily Press, the Santa Monica Mirror, the Santa Monica Observer, Santa Monica Magazine, and the Santa Monica Sun.
The town/city of Santa Monica rests on a mostly flat slope that angles down towards Ocean Avenue and towards the south.
To the west, Santa Monica has the 3-mile coastline fronting the Santa Monica Bay, and to the east of the town/city borders are the Los Angeles communities of West Los Angeles and Brentwood.
Santa Monica appreciates an average of 310 days of sunlight a year. It is in USDA plant hardiness zone 11a. Because of its location, nestled on the vast and open Santa Monica Bay, morning fog is a common phenomenon in May, June and early July (caused by ocean temperature variations and currents).
Santa Monica usually appreciates cool breezes blowing in from the ocean, which tend to keep the air fresh and clean.
Therefore, smoke and fog is less of a lured for Santa Monica than elsewhere around Los Angeles.
Climate data for Santa Monica Pier, California The groundwater supply in turn plays an meaningful part in the city's Sustainable Water Master Plan, whereby Santa Monica has set a goal of attaining 100% water independence by 2020. The town/city has various programs designed to promote water conservation among residents, including a rebate of $1.50 per square foot for those who convert water intensive lawns to more small-town drought-tolerant plant nurseries that require less water. Santa Monica has also instituted a green building-code whereby merely constructing to code automatically renders a building equivalent to the US Green Building Council's LEED Silver standards. The city's Main Library, for example, is one of many LEED certified or LEED equivalent buildings in the city.
Since 2009, Santa Monica has been developing the Zero Waste Strategic Operations Plan by which the town/city will set a goal of diverting at least 95% of all waste away from landfills, and toward recycling and composting, by 2030.
The town/city is also in the process of implementing a 5-year and 20 year Bike Action Plan with a goal of attaining 14 to 35% bicycle transit mode share by 2030 through the installation of enhanced bicycle transit framework throughout the city. Other surroundingally concentrated initiatives include curbside recycling, curbside composting bins (in addition to trash, yard-waste, and recycle bins), farmers' markets, improve plant nurseries, garden-share, an urban forest initiative, a hazardous materials home-collection service, green company certification, a municipal bus system, and the Metro light rail Expo Line (replacing the former Pacific Electric Santa Monica Air Line last directed in 1953). Santa Monica beach and pier viewed from the end of Santa Monica Pier.
Santa Monica City Hall, designed by Donald Parkinson, with terrazo mosaics by Stanton Mac - Donald-Wright Santa Monica's populace has grown from 417 in 1880 to 89,736 in 2010. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported Santa Monica had a populace of 89,736.
The ethnic makeup of Santa Monica was 69,663 (77.6%) White (70.1% Non-Hispanic White), 3,526 (3.9%) African American, 338 (0.4%) Native American, 8,053 (9.0%) Asian, 124 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 4,047 (4.5%) from other competitions, and 3,985 (4.4%) from two or more competitions.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Santa Monica had a median homehold income of $73,649, with 11.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. The town/city of Santa Monica is persistently among the most educated metros/cities in the United States, with 23.8 percent of all inhabitants holding graduate degrees. In 2006, crime in Santa Monica affected 4.41% of the population, slightly lower than the nationwide average crime rate that year of 4.48%. The majority of this was property crime, which affected 3.74% of Santa Monica's populace in 2006; this was higher than the rates for Los Angeles County (2.76%) and California (3.17%), but lower than the nationwide average (3.91%).
These per-capita crime rates are computed based on Santa Monica's full-time populace of about 85,000.
However, the Santa Monica Police Department has suggested the actual per-capita crime rate is much lower, as tourists, workers, and beachgoers can increase the city's daytime populace to between 250,000 and 450,000 citizens . Violent crimes affected 0.67% of the populace in Santa Monica in 2006, in line with Los Angeles County (0.65%), but higher than the averages for California (0.53%) and the country (0.55%). Hate crime has typically been minimal in Santa Monica, with only one reported incident in 2007.
A 2009 study by the Santa Monica Daily Press showed since the law took effect in 2007, the Santa Monica Police had "not issued any citations for offenses involving the adult, personal use of marijuana inside private residences." In June 2011, the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica after being a fugitive for 16 years.
A shooting in Santa Monica in 2013 left six (including the perpetrator) dead and five more injured.
The Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica (south of the Santa Monica Freeway) experiences some gang activity.
The town/city estimates there are about 50 gang members based in Santa Monica, although some improve organizers dispute this claim. Gang activeness has been prevalent for decades in the Pico neighborhood.
In October 1998, alleged Culver City 13 gang member Omar Sevilla, 21, of Culver City was killed. A couple of hours after the shooting of Sevilla, German tourist Horst Fietze was killed. Several days later Juan Martin Campos, age 23, a Santa Monica town/city employee, was shot and killed.
They then ran outside to a getaway vehicle driven by a third Culver City gang member, who is now also in custody. The clothing store was believed to be a small-town hang out for Santa Monica gang members.
Police say the incident was in retaliation for a shooting committed by the Santa Monica 13 gang days before the Juarez brothers were gunned down. In addition to the traditional model of early education school homes, SMASH (Santa Monica Alternative School House) is "a K-8 enhance school of choice with team teachers and multi-aged classrooms". Santa Monica Alternative School House [SMASH] The precinct maintains three enhance middle schools in Santa Monica: John Adams Middle School, Lincoln Middle School and SMASH. The precinct maintains two high schools in Santa Monica: Olympic High School and Santa Monica High School. Santa Monica Montessori School Asahi Gakuen, a weekend Japanese supplementary school system, operates its Santa Monica ground ( Santamonika-ko kotobu) at Webster Middle in the Sawtelle neighborhood of Los Angeles.
All high school classes in the Asahi Gakuen fitness are held at the Santa Monica campus. As of 1986 students take buses from as far away as Orange County to go to the high school classes of the Santa Monica campus. Santa Monica College is a junior college established in 1929.
The Art Institute of California Los Angeles is also in Santa Monica near the Santa Monica Airport.
Universities and universities inside a 22-mile (35 km) radius from Santa Monica include Santa Monica College, Antioch University Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Mount St.
Mary's College, Pepperdine University, California State University, Northridge, California State University, Los Angeles, UCLA, USC, West Los Angeles College, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Occidental College (Oxy), Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Valley College, and Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine.
The Santa Monica Public Library consists of a Main Library in the downtown area, plus four neighborhood chapters: Fairview, Montana Avenue, Ocean Park, and Pico Boulevard.
Santa Monica has a bike action plan and recently launched a bicycle sharing fitness in November 2015. The town/city is traversed by the Marvin Braude Bike Trail.
Santa Monica has received the Bicycle Friendly Community Award (Bronze in 2009, Silver in 2013) by the League of American Bicyclists. Local bicycle advocacy organizations include Santa Monica Spoke, a small-town chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. Santa Monica is thought to be one of the leaders for bicycle transit framework and programming in Los Angeles County. In terms of number of bicycle accidents, Santa Monica rates as one of the worst (#2) out of 102 California metros/cities with populace 50,000 100,000, a ranking consistent with the city's composite ranking. In 2007 and 2008, small-town police cracked down on Santa Monica Critical Mass rides that had turn into controversial, putting a damper on the tradition. Pacific Coast Highway running through Santa Monica The Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) begins in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean and heads east.
The Santa Monica Freeway between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles has the distinct ion of being one of the busiest highways in all of North America.
State Route 2 (Santa Monica Boulevard) begins in Santa Monica, barely grazing State Route 1 at Lincoln Boulevard, and continues northeast athwart Los Angeles County, through the Angeles National Forest, crossing the San Gabriel Mountains as the Angeles Crest Highway, ending in Wrightwood.
Santa Monica is also the (Pacific) end of historic U.S.
Close to the easterly boundary of Santa Monica, Sepulveda Boulevard reaches from Long Beach at the south, to the northern end of the San Fernando Valley.
Just east of Santa Monica is Interstate 405, the "San Diego Freeway", a primary north-south route in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California.
The City of Santa Monica has purchased the first Zero - Truck all-electric medium-duty truck.
The town/city of Santa Monica runs its own bus service, the Big Blue Bus, which also serves much of West Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
The town/city of Santa Monica is also served by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (Metro) bus lines.
Design and assembly on the 6.6-mile extension (10.6 km) of the Expo Line from Culver City to Santa Monica started in September 2011, with service beginning on May 20, 2016.
Santa Monica Metro stations include 26th Street/Bergamot, 17th Street/Santa Monica College, and Downtown Santa Monica.
Travel time between the downtown Santa Monica and the downtown Los Angeles termini is approximately 47 minutes.
It uses the right-of-way for the Santa Monica Air Line that provided electric-powered freight and passenger service between Los Angeles and Santa Monica beginning in the 1920s. Service was discontinued in 1953 but diesel-powered freight bringies to warehouses along the route continued until March 11, 1988. The abandonment of the line spurred concerns inside the improve and the entire right-of-way was purchased from Southern Pacific by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The line was assembled in 1875 as the steam-powered Los Angeles and Independence Railroad to bring quarrying ore to ships in Santa Monica harbor and as a passenger excursion train to the beach.
The town/city owns and operates a general aviation airport, Santa Monica Airport, which has been the site of a several important aviation achievements.
Commercial flights are available for inhabitants at Los Angeles International Airport, a several miles south of Santa Monica.
Like other metros/cities in Los Angeles County, Santa Monica is dependent upon the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles for global ship cargo.
In the 1890s, Santa Monica was once in competition with Wilmington, California, and San Pedro for recognition as the "Port of Los Angeles" (see History of Santa Monica, California).
Two primary hospitals are inside the Santa Monica town/city limits, UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and St.
Santa Monica is governed by the Santa Monica City Council, a Council-Manager governing body with seven members propel at-large.
In the California State Legislature, Santa Monica is in the 26th Senate District, represented by Democrat Ben Allen, and in the 50th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Richard Bloom. In the United States House of Representatives, Santa Monica is in California's 33rd congressional district, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu. Santa Monica is home to the command posts of many notable businesses, including Hulu, Universal Music Group, Lionsgate Films, the RAND Corporation, Beachbody, and Macerich.
Fatburger's command posts are in Santa Monica. TOMS Shoes has its command posts in Santa Monica. Former Santa Monica businesses include Douglas Aircraft (now consolidated with Boeing), My - Space (now headquartered in Beverly Hills), and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In December 1996, Geo - Cities was headquartered on the third floor of 1918 Main Street in Santa Monica. Santa Monica has a strong small company community; Fundera ranked the town/city the 6th best town/city for small company in a 2016 study. Recently, Santa Monica has emerged as the center of the Los Angeles region called Silicon Beach, and serves as the home of hundreds of venture-capital funded startup companies. 1 City of Santa Monica 2,528 2 Santa Monica - UCLA Medical Center 2,079 3 Santa Monica College 1,953 The men's and women's marathon ran through parts of Santa Monica amid the 1984 Summer Olympics. The Santa Monica Track Club has many prominent track athletes, including many Olympic gold medalists.
Santa Monica is also home to the Santa Monica Rugby Club, a semi-professional team that competes in the Pacific Rugby Premiership, the highest-level rugby union club competition in the United States.
Hundreds of movies have been shot or set in part inside the town/city of Santa Monica. One of the earliest exterior shots in Santa Monica is Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage (1929) which shows much of 2nd Street.
The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) encompassed several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those along the California Incline, which led to the movie's treasure spot, "The Big W".
The Sylvester Stallone film Rocky III (1982) shows Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed training to fight Clubber Lang by running on the Santa Monica Beach, and Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) includes Santa Monica settings.
Heathers (1989) used Santa Monica's John Adams Middle School for many exterior shots.
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) is set entirely in Santa Monica, especially the Palisades Park area, and features a airways broadcast that resembles KCRW at Santa Monica College.
Other films that show momentous exterior shots of Santa Monica include Fletch (1985), Species (1995), Get Shorty (1995), and Ocean's Eleven (2001).
Richard Rossi's biopic Aimee Semple Mc - Pherson opens and closes at the beach in Santa Monica.
Iron Man features the Santa Monica pier and encircling communities as Tony Stark tests his experimental flight suit.
The documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) and the related dramatic film Lords of Dogtown (2005) are both about the influential skateboarding culture of Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood in the 1970s.
The Santa Monica Pier is shown in many films, including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? A number of tv series have been set in Santa Monica, including Baywatch, Three's Company, Pacific Blue, and Private Practice.
The Santa Monica pier is shown in the chief infamous of CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles.
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chief exterior set of the town of Sunnydale, including the continuing "sun sign", was in Santa Monica in a lot on Olympic Boulevard. The films The Doors (1991) and Speed (1994) featured vehicles from Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus line, relative to the eras depicted in the films.
The town/city of Santa Monica (and in particular the Santa Monica Airport) was featured in Roland Emmerich's disaster film 2012 (2009).
The Santa Monica Pier and the whole town/city sinks into the Pacific Ocean after the earthquake.
The setting on a certain portion of Mitch Albom's book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, has similarities to the Pacific Pier along the Santa Monica beach.
His short story titled The mattress by the Tomato Patch was set near Santa Monica Beach, and mentions the clock visible in much of the city, high up on The Broadway Building, on Broadway near 2nd Street.
Also featured in Rick Riordains "Percy Jackson" Novels, specifically the Santa Monica pier.
The undivided rock band Theory of a Deadman's song titled "Santa Monica", is a first-person account about a girl leaving her momentous other to start a new life in Santa Monica.
The band Savage Garden also released a song titled "Santa Monica" off their #3 US album Savage Garden (1997).
Kim Kibum, a member of the prominent Korean boy band Super Junior attended Santa Monica High School Richard Rossi released a song entitled "Santa Monica," celebrating the Santa Monica Pier, on his album "Seasons of My Heart." Santa Monica is featured in the video games True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines (2004), Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004) as a fictional precinct - Santa Maria Beach, Destroy All Humans! Aragon Ballroom (Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California) List of City of Santa Monica Designated Historic Landmarks List of citizens from Santa Monica, California Santa Monica, California.
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