Westside Village is a neighborhood on the

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Geography

Westside Village is bounded by National Boulevard to the north, Charnock Road to the south, Overland Avenue to the east and Sepulveda Boulevard to the west. The neighborhood shares a 90034 zip code with Palms, but Westside Village is designated "Zone 1" of the

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Community Council.

History

The area was part of Rancho La Ballona and later the Charnock Ranch (which grew

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, grain hay and walnuts). Then, in 1939, the area was subdivided for the building of 1,200 single family homes by

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Fritz B. Burns, and it became one of the first examples of tract housing in the Los Angeles area. Fritz Burns was also responsible for the development of the westside neighborhoods of Playa del Rey and

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, and his personal papers are archived at the Westchester campus of Loyola Marymount University. Westside Village was a created with affordability in mind. The houses averaged just , had single car garages, and were built on lots of about . In 1939–1940, the original homes sold for around

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4,000. Burns kept the prices affordable by selling the houses unpainted, the yards unplanted (while providing buyers with access to plants that could be purchased for 25 and 50 cents each) and by leaving the streets without sidewalks—many of which remain without sidewalks to this day. The placement of Westside Village between what was then the

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and the

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in Santa Monica at a time when both the movie and aerospace industries were booming, made the homes in the development immediately desirable to workers of both facilities.

Foliage

The streets are lined with mature, statuesque

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, Chinese Elm, and

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trees, which provide privacy and shade for the residents.

Population

As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Westside Village had a population of about 9,984.

References

Neighborhoods in Los Angeles Mar Vista, Los Angeles Westside (Los Angeles County) 1940 establishments in California Populated places established in 1940 Palms, Los Angeles {{LosAngeles-geo-stub