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Grab a bite from some of LA’s best food trucks. Street Poets will be in their Poetry in Motion Van, a Does your child need a helmet? Stop by the mobile performance venue and recording studio, California Highway Patrol booth and get fitted Make sure to visit the Capital One booth for empowering people of all ages and backgrounds to for a free kids helmet (while supplies last). amazing giveaways, games, and prizes. express themselves on the page and on the mic. Join the Skateside to learn basic skateboarding skills. Stop by the LA County Registrar’s booth and Learn more about Neighborhood Councils in LA, make sure you’re registered to vote! Plug into the phone charging station at the LADWP the Mayor’s Volunteer Engagement program, and Solar Trailer and let the sun repower your phone. NEAR THE HUB the Department of City Planning’s community plan updates in the Westside! Visit the JUMP booth for a free adult helmet (while Check out the shops and eateries in the supplies last). Culver City Arts District, and stop by the Historic Ride Metro Bike Share at CicLAvia! Stop by their Helms Bakery District to eat, drink, and shop! booth in Palms to chat with staff and check out the Sign up for a free Los Angeles Public Library card all-new Smart Metro Bike (with several new stations and keep an eye out for the roaming Book Bike. Free on the Westside!). books will be given to people with library cards.
C U L V E DOWNTOWN R H O The Mayor’s Great Streets Initiative invites you T NEAR THE HUB E L CULVER CITY HUB Stop by the Motor Ave Farmers Market on to hang out at their pop-up parklet! Learn how to National west of Motor. apply for the 2019 Great Streets Challenge Grant. Check out the latest in folding bikes from TERN. They’re offering ten communities up to $2.5 million in outreach support and infrastructure investments. WASHINGTON PIT STOP: Stop by Washington Culver CityBus is celebrating 91 years of service! Snap a photo with your dream Great Street at the Blvd. at Harter St. for free water, porta potties, and Stop by their booth for giveaways, Metro Pop-Up parklet to earn points for the Scavenger Hunt! Shop, our famous Bus Photo Booth, and a close-up free basic bike repair! look at our Anniversary Wrapped Bus. Learn more Learn more about the new “Downtown Mar Vista” about working for and riding Culver CityBus. Grab in the Great Streets segment of Venice Blvd. Metro a route schedule and pick up a commemorative WASHINGTON WEST HUB and LADOT will have bike share and Microtransit TAP card! shuttle info, and there will be a solar DJ. If you’re looking for a fun challenge and want to learn about Relax in the AARP play zone while catching up over the new public art, pedestrian safety and street- Visit the LA Ranger Troca, a food truck turned vintage board games. scape improvements, stop by Councilmember mobile visitor center for the Santa Monica Mike Bonin’s booth to participate in the Great Bike valet! Mountains. Learn more about the National Parks Streets Scavenger Hunt. Services programs, then scale their 25' rock wall. NEAR THE HUB Grab some sweets and treats at some of our favorite Complete the kids bike safety skills course with Enjoy a leisurely lunch in one of the many eateries dessert trucks! Walk n Rollers and get a free helmet (while supplies in Downtown Culver City or grab a quick bite last) courtesy of CicLAvia. and dine al fresco along Culver Blvd. Check out NEAR THE HUB a killer line up of live bands programmed by the Stop by the Thousand Safety Checkpoint to get Stop by the Mar Vista Farmers Market on Grand Downtown Business Association. And stop by your helmet fitted, check your brakes, tire pressure View south of Venice for fresh fruits, veggies, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre for your chance to win and saddle height, and learn other bike safety tips. prepared foods! free tickets and to create your very own roller derby Stop by reDiscover Center’s booth and create trading card, sponsored by the upcoming produc- Check out live local music, bounce houses, chalk art, fantastical streamers and fun decorations for your tion of “For the Love Of (or the Roller Derby Play)”. and live screenprinting throughout the Great Streets bicycle, scooter, helmet, or stroller. corridor, programmed by Council District 11. Stop by the Metro outreach booth at the Culver Grab a bite and a drink at one of the many local City Expo Station to chat with Metro Planning Staff, Ride Metro Bike Share at CicLAvia! Stop by their restaurants in the Washington West Business make a customized license plate for your bike, booth at Venice and Colonial to chat with staff District. Food and drink specials galore. and check out an all-new Smart Metro Bike and check out the all-new Smart Metro Bike (with several new stations on the Westside!). (with several new stations on the Westside). Enjoy live performances by Taiko drummers, dance by Brazil Brazil, Ooks of Hazzard, and more, programmed Stop by Venice High School to enjoy food trucks by the Washington West Business District. programmed by the Venice High Booster club.
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1 Ballona Creek Bike Path 5 Kirk Douglas Theatre 4 MGM STUDIOS, 1951 Entrance at Syd Kronenthal Park (National Blvd.) 9820 W Washington Blvd. Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection This 8-mile bike and pedestrian path runs along- A former movie palace, this Streamline Moderne side the channelized Ballona Creek from here to theatre, built in 1947, was originally the Culver Marina del Rey, where you can travel to both the Theatre. After an extensive restoration project, Ballona Lagoon and the Venice canals. It also links the theatre was reopened in 2004 as part of LA’s up to the Marvin Braude Bike Trail along the beach. Center Theatre Group.
2 Helms Bakery 8800 Venice Blvd. 6 Motor Avenue Parklet This 1931 Art Deco building, once the family- 3272 and 3370 Motor Ave. owned and operated Helms Bakery, is now Installed as part of LADOT’s People St program, the centerpiece of a busy retail and restaurant these two parklets maintained by the Motor district. Opened during the Depression, the Avenue Improvement Association remove street CULVER THEATRE, 1969 bakery supplied many jobs; instead of being parking to provide public seating for pedestrians, 5 Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection sold in stores, fresh-baked bread was delivered residents, and business patrons on Motor Ave. “Daily at Your Door” across the Southland. 7 Mitsuwa Marketplace 3 The Culver Studios 3760 S Centinela Ave. 9336 W Washington Blvd. This branch of the U.S.’s largest Japanese super- This is the second major film studio in Culver City market chain includes many restaurants and a to be built by silent-era director Thomas Ince, Kinokuniya bookstore. Mitsuwa is representative built in 1918. Past owners include Howard Hughes of the large Japanese American population that and Joseph Kennedy. Citizen Kane, Gone with has historically lived nearby in Sawtelle. the Wind and E.T. are among the many classic films shot here. 8 826LA 12515 Venice Blvd. 826LA is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting 4 Sony Pictures Studios W Washington Blvd. youth with their writing skills, with after-school from Hughes Ave. to Overland Ave. tutoring, writing workshops, and the creation of Originally founded by Thomas Ince as the Ince/ student publications. There’s also a shop at this Triangle Studios in 1915, this was the first film location selling Time Travel equipment. studio built in Culver City. After Ince moved on to build what is now the Culver Studios, this studio 9 Venice High School 13000 Venice Blvd. was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). In 1990, Originally built at the Kinney Company’s old the Sony Corporation purchased the remaining Lagoon Bathhouse in 1911, the school moved studio, restoring its historic properties and to this site, and many of the current Art Deco turning it into a state-of-the-art facility for buildings date to the 1930s, when they were VENICE HIGH SCHOOL, 1920 9 Courtesy of the California Historical Society Collection. film and television production. rebuilt after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.