The border between the City of LA and Culver City is confusing - there's no question about that. We get questions all the time, though, asking in which City establishments are located. Most often, they're in the Los Angeles community of Palms, like the Museum of Jurassic Technology, even thought they claim Culver City. (We know that JackFM has the same problem of not realizing where they exist.)
But you'd think the Center for Land Use Interpretation would know that they are in the City of Los Angeles and not Culver City. But, they claim the "C.C." designation over the true, LA City address.
Where's the community pride?
No wonder Palms has such a hard time getting on the map. They are often pushed aside as a community for the flashier "Heart of Sceenland." And what pushes this specific CLUI issue even further is that their latest exhibit on Parking is partially funded by the City of LA, not Culver City. Perhaps there needs to be a promotional stipulation that if you receive City funding, you have to list the project as taking place in the City.
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Just look at the street sign for the street that establishment is on. It it's green, it's Culver City. If it's blue (or the old school black), then it's Los Angeles.
Welp, they are in the city of LA, but the Post Office thinks it's Culver City.
Try feeding "9331 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA" (or "Palms, CA") into the USPS Zip Code Finder, and see what you get.
Nope, the PO only recognizes that address as Culver City, no matter where the real boundaries are.
(And if you ask 'em to list all the cities in the 90232 Zip code, all you get is "Culver City")
If you have the right ZIP code, mail will probably still get through, but it doesn't surprise me that CLUI uses the USPS-approved version of their address. :-)
Here's another test. Sit in the passenger of a car blindfolded. Have the drive head towards Culver City. As soon as you noticed that the ride becomes nice and smooth, you've left the City of Los Angeles ;-)
The street sign test isn't necessarily valid: Many of L.A.'s borders are fractal-like in their complexity with adjacent buildings on a block in different cities (and in some cases a building actually straddling the boundary!) This is a consequence of the city expanding parcel by parcel into unincorporated L.A. county. The best way of knowing whether a property is in L.A. or not is to look at their water bill.
The boundary between Culver City and Los Angeles is wierd indeed.
Down Washington Blvd., by the intersection of Lincoln Blvd., the former aircraft factory lot (which now houses a Costco and Albertsons), is part of a long finger that Culver City extends down Washington.
I shudder at the the thought of all that L.A. money pouring into Culver City's retail sales tax coffers. CC is like a parasite!
A glorious, relatively well maintained, parasite.
As a dedicated Angeleno, I've always been super-aware of what is and is not in Los Angeles. Living in San Pedro, in the City of Los Angeles, I've always taken offense at people who don't even live in the city claiming it as their own and at the same time disparaging those of us who live either in the 15th district or the valley as outsiders.
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