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Motordrome is an archaic placename in
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. It designates a rail spur that existed in the 1910s on the Redondo Beach via Del Rey Line, named for the
Los Angeles Motordrome The Los Angeles Motordrome was a circular wood board race track. It was located in Playa del Rey, California, and opened in 1910. In addition to automobile racing, it was used for motorcycle competition and aviation activities. The Motordr ...
race track and airfield. Even though the racetrack was destroyed in a fire in 1913, and the rails were removed by 1918, the place name persisted on
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survey maps until at least the 1930s. The Barnes Circus train partially derailed at Motordrome in 1914, injuring four. Motordrome station lay at an elevation of 7 feet (2 m). The coordinates for Motordrome preserved in the
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() place it near the present-day intersections of
Jefferson Boulevard Jefferson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles and Culver City, California. Its eastern terminus is at Central Avenue east of Exposition Park. At its entrance to Culver City, it splits with National Boulevard. North of Sawtelle Boulevard, it ...
and Culver Boulevard, in what is now the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve.


See also

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Alla, California Alla is a former streetcar station and archaic place name located near Marina del Rey in the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California. The former Glen Alla Park (now Bill Rosendahl Del Rey Park) is also derivative of this place name; t ...
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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 ...
* Cypress Grove, California *
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 ...


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“Birdseye view of resorts near Los Angeles, California” incl Motordrome (via LMU Digital Collections)
Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California Former populated places in California {{LosAngelesCountyCA-geo-stub