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Alla is a former streetcar station and archaic place name located near
Alla is named after a turn-of-the-last century hunting lodge, Alla Gun Club, which organized duck hunts at what is now Ballona Wetland Ecological Reserve. The Alla station of the Pacific Electric route was named after the club’s old hunting grounds.
In 1902, Alla Station was described as being “two miles distant” from the new Playa Del Rey development; the coordinates of the station recorded in the GNIS () place it on the north side of Culver Boulevard near what is now the Marina Freeway.
Alla Station was the site of a wye where the 
Ask the Militant Angeleno: Alsace and Alla That (2015-08-15)
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Alla is a former streetcar station and archaic place name located near Marina del Rey
Marina del Rey (Spanish for "Marina of the King") is an unincorporated seaside community in Los Angeles County, California, with an eponymous harbor that is a major boating and water recreation destination of the greater Los Angeles area. The p ...
in the Westside region of Los Angeles County
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, California
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.
The former Glen Alla Park (now Bill Rosendahl Del Rey Park) is also derivative of this place name; the park sits near the intersection of Glencoe and Alla.
Alla lies at an elevation of 16 feet (5 m).
History
Alla is named after a turn-of-the-last century hunting lodge, Alla Gun Club, which organized duck hunts at what is now Ballona Wetland Ecological Reserve. The Alla station of the Pacific Electric route was named after the club’s old hunting grounds.
In 1902, Alla Station was described as being “two miles distant” from the new Playa Del Rey development; the coordinates of the station recorded in the GNIS () place it on the north side of Culver Boulevard near what is now the Marina Freeway.
Alla Station was the site of a wye where the Inglewood Line Inglewood may refer to:
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and Redondo via Del Rey Line
The Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey was an interurban railway route of the Pacific Electric. It operated between the Hill Street Terminal and Cliffton, south of Redondo Beach, through the company's Western Division.
History
The route began as ...
s of the Los Angeles electric streetcar system crossed and was sometimes called Alla Junction.
Circa 1929, ''The Pacific Electric Magazine'' reported an improvement would be made at “Culver Blvd. at Alla Station on the Inglewood Line oreconstruct and pave tracks across the street…at an estimated cost of $680.00. The work is necessary to conform with improvement of Culver Boulevard by the County of Los Angeles.
In 1937, the same magazine reported “The U.S. Government, in connection with the Los Angeles County Flood Control District
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, is deepening, widening and improving Ballona Creek flood control channel which crosses our Del Rey Redondo line near Alla Station…Re-alignment of the railway, which requires a shorter crossing of the channel by a single-track bridge, has been worked out and is now under construction at an estimated gross cost of more than $42,000.00.”
Settlement
In 1921 the ''Los Angeles Herald'' reported, “At Alla station, between Redondo and Playa del Rey, 25 Mexican families were reported marooned in a wash. Their little homes had been built on high piles and deep water was flowing through the wash.” The USGS-produced “Venice Quadrangle” topographical maps for both 1923 and 1930 show approximately 10 homes established along the tracks just to the southwest of Alla Junction.See also
*Motordrome, California
Motordrome is an archaic placename in Los Angeles County, California. It designates a rail spur that existed in the 1910s on the Redondo Beach via Del Rey Line, named for the Los Angeles Motordrome race track and airfield.
Even though the race ...
* Alsace, California
Alsace is an archaic place name. Originally an interurban trolley stop, the name now informally designates an approximately five-block area of unincorporated Los Angeles County in the Westside region, surrounded by the north-of-Jefferson sect ...
* Machado, California
Machado refers to three locations in Los Angeles, California, all named for the rancho-era Machado family. Machado is a name derived from Portuguese meaning "hatchet", the stop was probably more directly named for the Machado family of the Ranc ...
* Cypress Grove, California
Cypress Grove, California was a stop on the Redondo Beach via Playa Del Rey Line of the Los Angeles streetcar system.
The Cypress Grove stop was located just east of Alla Junction in what is now the Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles in Los An ...
References
External links
Ask the Militant Angeleno: Alsace and Alla That (2015-08-15)
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