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Sunset Boulevard

February 11, 2023

This article is about the street in the Los Angeles area. For the 1950 film, see Sunset Boulevard (film). For other uses, see Sunset Boulevard (disambiguation).

Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles. It is a major thoroughfare in the cities of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood (including a portion known as the Sunset Strip), as well as several districts in Los Angeles.

Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard near Vine Street in Hollywood
Location
Nearest metro station  Vermont/Sunset
West end SR 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) in Pacific Palisades
Major
junctions		 I-405 in Brentwood
US 101 in Hollywood
SR 2 in Echo Park
East end SR 110/Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles
Signs along the Sunset Strip
Sunset Blvd at the West Gate of Bel Air
Emerson College Los Angeles Center at 5960 Sunset Blvd

Geography

Approximately 22 miles (35 km) in length,[1] the boulevard roughly traces the arc of mountains that form part of the northern boundary of the Los Angeles Basin, following the path of a 1780s cattle trail from the Pueblo de Los Angeles to the ocean.[2]

From Downtown Los Angeles, the boulevard heads northwest, to Hollywood, through which it travels due west for several miles before it bends southwest towards the ocean. It passes through or near Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Holmby Hills. In Bel-Air, Sunset Boulevard runs along the northern boundary of UCLA's Westwood campus. The boulevard continues through Brentwood to Pacific Palisades, where it terminates at the Pacific Coast Highway intersection.

The boulevard has curvaceous winding stretches, and can be treacherous for unalert drivers in some sections. Sunset Boulevard is at least four lanes wide along its entire route. Sunset is frequently congested with traffic loads beyond its design capacity.

Sunset Boulevard historically extended farther east than it does now, starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in the historic section of Downtown. The portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Figueroa Street was renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue[1] in 1994, along with Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue, in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader and civil rights activist.

History

In 1877, Harvey Henderson Wilcox, one of the earlier real estate owners from "back East", decided to subdivide more than 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land (mostly orchards and vineyards) along Sunset Boulevard, including what is today Hollywood and Vine.[3]

In 1890, Belgian diplomat Victor Ponet bought 240 acres (97 ha) of the former Rancho La Brea land grant.[4] His son-in-law, Francis S. Montgomery, inherited this property and created Sunset Plaza.[5][irrelevant citation]

According to a 1901 article in the Los Angeles Herald, Sunset only extended from Hollywood in the west to Marion Avenue in the Echo Park district in the east.[6] The Board of Public Works proposed to extend Sunset east to Main Street in the Plaza by routing the road over the existing section of Bellevue Avenue,[7] but the plan was delayed until approximately 1904,[8][9] due to active opposition by affected land owners.[10] According to the 1910[11] Baist Real Estate Survey Atlas, Sunset Boulevard reached the Plaza by that time, but it did so by two short and narrow segments which were not aligned with each other and thus did not provide a proper thoroughfare to it. In late 1912, several properties along the route were condemned so that the boulevard could be changed in both its width and its alignment.[12][13] With these changes completed, Sunset Boulevard now reached North Main Street and continued as Marchessault along the northern end of the Plaza. This section, variously marked and signed as Marchessault Street or East Sunset Boulevard, remained open to traffic until the late 1960s or early 1970s.[14] At that time, Sunset was realigned one block north and Marchessault was closed to motor traffic.

In 1921 a westward expansion of Sunset began, extending the road from the then-current terminus at Sullivan Canyon toward the coast. This land, a portion of the original 1838 holdings of Francisco Marquez, stretched across a mesa and became known as the "Riviera section". Will Rogers, who had bought much of this land as an investment, later donated it to the State of California creating Will Rogers State Historic Park.[15] Circa 1931, Sunset was a paved road from Horn Avenue to Havenhurst Avenue.[16]

Cultural aspects

The Sunset Strip portion of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood has been famous for its active nightlife since at least the 1950s.[17]

In contrast to other American cities where it referred to a concentration of radio retailers, in Los Angeles, Radio Row was understood in the 1940s–1950s as the area around the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, where the broadcasting facilities of all four major radio networks were located.[18]

In the 1970s, the area between Gardner Street and Western Avenue was a center for street prostitution.[19] Shortly after a much publicized incident in late June 1995, police raids drove out the majority of prostitutes on the Boulevard.

Part of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is also sometimes called "Guitar Row" due to the large number of guitar stores and music industry-related businesses,[20] including the recording studios Sunset Sound Studios and United Western Recorders.

The portion of Sunset Boulevard that passes through Beverly Hills was once named Beverly Boulevard.

The boulevard is commemorated in Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard (1950), the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, and the 1950s television series 77 Sunset Strip. Jan and Dean's 1960s hit song "Dead Man's Curve" refers to a section of the road near Bel Air estates just north of UCLA's Drake Stadium where Jan Berry almost died in an automobile accident in 1966.[21] The Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth" was written about a riot at Pandora's Box, a Sunset Strip club, in 1966.[22]

Metro Local lines 2, 4 and 602 operate on Sunset Boulevard, with Line 2 running through most of Sunset Boulevard between Echo Park and UCLA, Line 4 between Sunset Junction and Downtown LA, and Line 602 from UCLA west. The Metro B Line operates a subway station at Vermont Avenue.

At 4334 W. Sunset Boulevard lies the wall featured on the cover of the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith's 2000 album Figure 8. Since Smith's death in 2003, the wall has become a memorial for the artist; fans have left many personal messages there over the years.

Landmarks (past and present)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Feiler, Bruce (21 September 2010). America's Prophet: How the Story of Moses Shaped America. HarperCollins. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-06-172627-9. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  2. ^ Hawthorne, Christopher (July 14, 2012). "For Sunset, a new dawn". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Kennelley 1981, p. 69.
  4. ^ Kennelley 1981, p. 165.
  5. ^ McGroarty, John Steven (1921). Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea: With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses to the Period of Growth and Achievement, Volume 3. American Historical Society. p. 891. OCLC 920607532.
  6. ^ "Board Acts With Favor: Sunset Boulevard May Be Extended: Proposed Improvement Will Cost Hundred Thousand Dollars: Estimates Are Presented to Board of Public Works by Fred Eaton and That Body Grants Petition, for Its Extension—Cost of Widening Bellevue Avenue to a Point Near Plaza". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. 28, no. 4. October 5, 1901. p. 9 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection. Sunset boulevard at present extends from Hollywood, in the beautiful Cahuenga valley, to Marion avenue. It is now proposed to make Bellevue avenue an extension of the system from Marion avenue to Main street. In order to make the driveway a uniform width It will be necessary to widen Bellevue avenue from seventeen to twenty feet in many places between Marion avenue and the plaza.
  7. ^ "Sunset Boulevard May Reach Plaza: City Councilmen Encourage The Extensive Project. Committee of Business Men Secures Favorable Action from the Board of Public Works". Los Angeles Times. October 5, 1901. p. A2. Alternate Link via ProQuest.
  8. ^ "New Boulevard Is Completed: Suburban Residents Will Celebrate Saturday". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. 31, no. 227. May 13, 1904. p. 12 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  9. ^ "Los Angeles And Hollywood Unite In Opening Of Sunset Boulevard". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. 31, no. 229. May 15, 1904. p. 5 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  10. ^ "Protest Against Improvement". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. 29, no. 315. August 14, 1902. p. 6 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  11. ^ 1910 Baist Real Estate Survey Atlas, Los Angeles. Plate 003 (Map). Philadelphia: G. W. Baist. 1910. OCLC 19764849.
  12. ^ "Old-day Buildings to Go for Street". Los Angeles Times. September 17, 1912. p. I7. Alternate Link via ProQuest.
  13. ^ Baist Real Estate Survey Atlas, Los Angeles. Plate 003 (Map). Philadelphia: G. W. Baist. 1914.
  14. ^ More research is needed to pin down the year
  15. ^ Kennelley 1981, p. 219-221.
  16. ^ Kennelley 1981, p. 182.
  17. ^ Starr, Kevin (14 February 2006). Coast of Dreams. Random House. p. 455. ISBN 978-0-679-74072-8. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  18. ^ "11 Aug 2005, Page 10 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ Ditmore, Melissa Hope (30 August 2006). Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-313-32968-5. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  20. ^ Green, Frank W. M. (5 March 2008). D'Angelico, Master Guitar Builder: What's in a Name?. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-57424-217-1. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  21. ^ Warshaw, Matt (1 September 2010). The History of Surfing. Chronicle Books. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-8118-5600-3. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  22. ^ Rasmussen, Cecilia (August 5, 2007). "Closing of club ignited the 'Sunset Strip riots'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 9, 2012.

References

  • Kennelley, Joe; Hankey, Roy (1981). Sunset Boulevard: America's Dream Street. Burbank, California: Darwin Publications. ISBN 978-0933506060. OCLC 9759543.

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  • Libman, Gary (December 18, 1988). "Street of Contrasts in a Changing L.A. : Sunset Boulevard: Epitome of L.A. : As It Winds From Plaza to Ocean, Diversity Is Its Name". Los Angeles Times.

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This article is about the street in the Los Angeles area For the 1950 film see Sunset Boulevard film For other uses see Sunset Boulevard disambiguation Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles California that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles It is a major thoroughfare in the cities of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood including a portion known as the Sunset Strip as well as several districts in Los Angeles Sunset BoulevardSunset Boulevard near Vine Street in HollywoodLocationLos Angeles California Beverly Hills California West Hollywood CaliforniaNearest metro station Vermont SunsetWest endSR 1 Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific PalisadesMajorjunctionsI 405 in Brentwood US 101 in Hollywood SR 2 in Echo ParkEast endSR 110 Figueroa Street in Downtown Los AngelesSigns along the Sunset Strip Sunset Blvd at the West Gate of Bel Air Emerson College Los Angeles Center at 5960 Sunset Blvd Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Cultural aspects 4 Landmarks past and present 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksGeography EditApproximately 22 miles 35 km in length 1 the boulevard roughly traces the arc of mountains that form part of the northern boundary of the Los Angeles Basin following the path of a 1780s cattle trail from the Pueblo de Los Angeles to the ocean 2 From Downtown Los Angeles the boulevard heads northwest to Hollywood through which it travels due west for several miles before it bends southwest towards the ocean It passes through or near Echo Park Silver Lake Los Feliz Hollywood West Hollywood Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills In Bel Air Sunset Boulevard runs along the northern boundary of UCLA s Westwood campus The boulevard continues through Brentwood to Pacific Palisades where it terminates at the Pacific Coast Highway intersection The boulevard has curvaceous winding stretches and can be treacherous for unalert drivers in some sections Sunset Boulevard is at least four lanes wide along its entire route Sunset is frequently congested with traffic loads beyond its design capacity Sunset Boulevard historically extended farther east than it does now starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in the historic section of Downtown The portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Figueroa Street was renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue 1 in 1994 along with Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue in honor of the late Mexican American union leader and civil rights activist History EditIn 1877 Harvey Henderson Wilcox one of the earlier real estate owners from back East decided to subdivide more than 20 acres 8 1 ha of land mostly orchards and vineyards along Sunset Boulevard including what is today Hollywood and Vine 3 In 1890 Belgian diplomat Victor Ponet bought 240 acres 97 ha of the former Rancho La Brea land grant 4 His son in law Francis S Montgomery inherited this property and created Sunset Plaza 5 irrelevant citation According to a 1901 article in the Los Angeles Herald Sunset only extended from Hollywood in the west to Marion Avenue in the Echo Park district in the east 6 The Board of Public Works proposed to extend Sunset east to Main Street in the Plaza by routing the road over the existing section of Bellevue Avenue 7 but the plan was delayed until approximately 1904 8 9 due to active opposition by affected land owners 10 According to the 1910 11 Baist Real Estate Survey Atlas Sunset Boulevard reached the Plaza by that time but it did so by two short and narrow segments which were not aligned with each other and thus did not provide a proper thoroughfare to it In late 1912 several properties along the route were condemned so that the boulevard could be changed in both its width and its alignment 12 13 With these changes completed Sunset Boulevard now reached North Main Street and continued as Marchessault along the northern end of the Plaza This section variously marked and signed as Marchessault Street or East Sunset Boulevard remained open to traffic until the late 1960s or early 1970s 14 At that time Sunset was realigned one block north and Marchessault was closed to motor traffic In 1921 a westward expansion of Sunset began extending the road from the then current terminus at Sullivan Canyon toward the coast This land a portion of the original 1838 holdings of Francisco Marquez stretched across a mesa and became known as the Riviera section Will Rogers who had bought much of this land as an investment later donated it to the State of California creating Will Rogers State Historic Park 15 Circa 1931 Sunset was a paved road from Horn Avenue to Havenhurst Avenue 16 Cultural aspects EditThe Sunset Strip portion of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood has been famous for its active nightlife since at least the 1950s 17 In contrast to other American cities where it referred to a concentration of radio retailers in Los Angeles Radio Row was understood in the 1940s 1950s as the area around the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood where the broadcasting facilities of all four major radio networks were located 18 In the 1970s the area between Gardner Street and Western Avenue was a center for street prostitution 19 Shortly after a much publicized incident in late June 1995 police raids drove out the majority of prostitutes on the Boulevard Part of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is also sometimes called Guitar Row due to the large number of guitar stores and music industry related businesses 20 including the recording studios Sunset Sound Studios and United Western Recorders The portion of Sunset Boulevard that passes through Beverly Hills was once named Beverly Boulevard The boulevard is commemorated in Billy Wilder s film Sunset Boulevard 1950 the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name and the 1950s television series 77 Sunset Strip Jan and Dean s 1960s hit song Dead Man s Curve refers to a section of the road near Bel Air estates just north of UCLA s Drake Stadium where Jan Berry almost died in an automobile accident in 1966 21 The Buffalo Springfield song For What It s Worth was written about a riot at Pandora s Box a Sunset Strip club in 1966 22 Metro Local lines 2 4 and 602 operate on Sunset Boulevard with Line 2 running through most of Sunset Boulevard between Echo Park and UCLA Line 4 between Sunset Junction and Downtown LA and Line 602 from UCLA west The Metro B Line operates a subway station at Vermont Avenue At 4334 W Sunset Boulevard lies the wall featured on the cover of the late singer songwriter Elliott Smith s 2000 album Figure 8 Since Smith s death in 2003 the wall has become a memorial for the artist fans have left many personal messages there over the years Landmarks past and present EditAmoeba Records Beverly Hills Hotel Blessed Sacrament Church Book Soup Carney s CBS Columbia Square Chateau Marmont Cinerama Dome CNN Comedy Store Crossroads of the World Directors Guild of America headquarters Dudley Do Right Emporium Earl Carroll Theatre Emerson College The Garden of Allah Gazzarri s Gower Gulch Haldeman House Hollywood Athletic Club Hollywood High School Hollywood Palladium Hotel Bel Air House of Blues Hyatt West Hollywood KCET KTLA The London Fog Los Angeles Film School Marymount High School Metromedia Square the former Fox Television Center and KTTV studios Nickelodeon on Sunset Palisades Charter High School Psychiatry An Industry of Death Museum Rainbow Bar and Grill Rock Walk The Roxy Theatre Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Sherry s Club now 1 OAK nightclub Spago Standard Hotel Sunset Junction Sunset Gower Studios Tiffany Theatre Tiki Ti United Western Recorders UCLA Viper Room Whisky a Go Go Will Rogers State Beach Will Rogers State Historic ParkSee also Edit Los Angeles portalSunset Boulevard film 1950 Notes Edit a b Feiler Bruce 21 September 2010 America s Prophet How the Story of Moses Shaped America HarperCollins p 208 ISBN 978 0 06 172627 9 Retrieved 9 August 2012 Hawthorne Christopher July 14 2012 For Sunset a new dawn Los Angeles Times Retrieved August 9 2012 Kennelley 1981 p 69 Kennelley 1981 p 165 McGroarty John Steven 1921 Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses to the Period of Growth and Achievement Volume 3 American Historical Society p 891 OCLC 920607532 Board Acts With Favor Sunset Boulevard May Be Extended Proposed Improvement Will Cost Hundred Thousand Dollars Estimates Are Presented to Board of Public Works by Fred Eaton and That Body Grants Petition for Its Extension Cost of Widening Bellevue Avenue to a Point Near Plaza Los Angeles Herald Vol 28 no 4 October 5 1901 p 9 via California Digital Newspaper Collection Sunset boulevard at present extends from Hollywood in the beautiful Cahuenga valley to Marion avenue It is now proposed to make Bellevue avenue an extension of the system from Marion avenue to Main street In order to make the driveway a uniform width It will be necessary to widen Bellevue avenue from seventeen to twenty feet in many places between Marion avenue and the plaza Sunset Boulevard May Reach Plaza City Councilmen Encourage The Extensive Project Committee of Business Men Secures Favorable Action from the Board of Public Works Los Angeles Times October 5 1901 p A2 Alternate Link via ProQuest New Boulevard Is Completed Suburban Residents Will Celebrate Saturday Los Angeles Herald Vol 31 no 227 May 13 1904 p 12 via California Digital Newspaper Collection Los Angeles And Hollywood Unite In Opening Of Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles Herald Vol 31 no 229 May 15 1904 p 5 via California Digital Newspaper Collection Protest Against Improvement Los Angeles Herald Vol 29 no 315 August 14 1902 p 6 via California Digital Newspaper Collection 1910 Baist Real Estate Survey Atlas Los Angeles Plate 003 Map Philadelphia G W Baist 1910 OCLC 19764849 Old day Buildings to Go for Street Los Angeles Times September 17 1912 p I7 Alternate Link via ProQuest Baist Real Estate Survey Atlas Los Angeles Plate 003 Map Philadelphia G W Baist 1914 More research is needed to pin down the year Kennelley 1981 p 219 221 Kennelley 1981 p 182 Starr Kevin 14 February 2006 Coast of Dreams Random House p 455 ISBN 978 0 679 74072 8 Retrieved 9 August 2012 11 Aug 2005 Page 10 The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers com Newspapers com Ditmore Melissa Hope 30 August 2006 Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work Greenwood Publishing Group p 260 ISBN 978 0 313 32968 5 Retrieved 9 August 2012 Green Frank W M 5 March 2008 D Angelico Master Guitar Builder What s in a Name Hal Leonard Corporation p 69 ISBN 978 1 57424 217 1 Retrieved 9 August 2012 Warshaw Matt 1 September 2010 The History of Surfing Chronicle Books p 198 ISBN 978 0 8118 5600 3 Retrieved 9 August 2012 Rasmussen Cecilia August 5 2007 Closing of club ignited the Sunset Strip riots Los Angeles Times Retrieved August 9 2012 References EditKennelley Joe Hankey Roy 1981 Sunset Boulevard America s Dream Street Burbank California Darwin Publications ISBN 978 0933506060 OCLC 9759543 External links EditRoute map KML file edit help Template Attached KML Sunset BoulevardKML is from Wikidata Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sunset Boulevard Libman Gary December 18 1988 Street of Contrasts in a Changing L A Sunset Boulevard Epitome of L A As It Winds From Plaza to Ocean Diversity Is Its Name Los Angeles Times Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sunset Boulevard amp oldid 1136388146, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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