MAR VISTA

Mar Vista is a neighborhood on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. In 1927, Mar Vista became the 70th community to be annexed to Los Angeles. It was designated as an official city neighborhood in 2006.

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Mar Vista was called Ocean Park Heights from 1904 to 1924. Ocean Park Heights developed along a rail line - the Venice Short Line from downtown Los Angeles to Venice Beach - built in 1902 (present day Venice Boulevard). In 1927, Mar Vista became the 70th community to be annexed to Los Angeles. The neighborhood experienced massive growth in the 1950's through the 1970's. The area north of Venice Boulevard was filled in with suburban single-family development, including many surviving examples of mid-century modern residential architecture along Beethoven, Meier, and Moore street.[2] These developments were originally built as basic, low-cost homes in a relatively far-flung region of the city. But as the surrounding areas of Western Los Angeles have developed into major business and tourism centers, property values rapidly increased to the point where, as of 2020, older homes marketed as tear-downs regularly sell for over $1 million. In 2006, the city designated Mar Vista as an official neighborhood and installed signage.

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The section of the neighborhood south of Venice Boulevard is zoned for apartment buildings, and as such it is significantly more densely populated. This section is home to a large concentration of dingbat apartment buildings which are mostly subject to Los Angeles' Rent Stabilization Ordinance, allowing many long-term renters to stay in the area despite increasingly expensive rents and property values.

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Per City Council action on February 21, 2006, Mar Vista was designated as the area bounded by: the Santa Monica City border between I-10 and Walgrove Avenue; Walgrove Avenue between Santa Monica City border and Culver City border on the west, Culver City border between Walgrove Avenue and I-405 on the south, I-405 between Culver City border and I-10 on the east, and I-10 between Santa Monica City border and 1-405 on the north.

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The schools within Mar Vista are as follows:[

• Mar Vista Elementary School, LAUSD, 3330 Granville Avenue

• Walgrove Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 1630 Walgrove Avenue

• Beethoven Street Elementary School, LAUSD, 3711 Beethoven Street

• Mark Twain Middle School, LAUSD, 2224 Walgrove Avenue

• James J. McBride Special Education Center, LAUSD, 3960 Centinela Avenue

• Venice Senior High School, LAUSD, 13000 Venice Boulevard, established in 1910 (then called "Venice Union Polytechnic High School") when classes were held in an old lagoon bathhouse two blocks from the beach. It moved to a new neo-romanesque structure at its present location a decade later.

• Venice Community Adult School, LAUSD, 13000 Venice Boulevard

• Phoenix Continuation School, LAUSD, 12971 Zanja Street

• Grand View Boulevard Elementary School, LAUSD,

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As of 2014 the Wiseburn School District allows parents in Mar Vista to send their children to Wiseburn schools on inter-district transfers.

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The Mar Vista Recreation Center has an auditorium, barbecue pits, an unlighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, an indoor gymnasium without weights, an outdoor roller hockey rink, an outdoor AstroTurf soccer field, picnic tables, a lighted tennis court, an outdoor pool and a lighted volleyball court.

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Notable Residents:

• Fatty Arbuckle- actor

• William Basinski - avant-garde composer best known for his work The Disintegration Loops.

• Lloyd Bridges - actor

• Neil Denari - Architect

• Jimmy Fallon - host of Tonight show

• John Frusciante- musician

• Kesha - Singer Songwriter

• Belita Moreno- Actress, played Benita Lopez on the George Lopez show.

• Jennifer Steinkamp - Installation artist.

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Education

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The schools within Mar Vista are as follows:

• Mar Vista Elementary School, LAUSD, 3330 Granville Avenue

• Walgrove Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 1630 Walgrove Avenue

• Beethoven Street Elementary School, LAUSD, 3711 Beethoven Street

• Mark Twain Middle School, LAUSD, 2224 Walgrove Avenue

• James J. McBride Special Education Center, LAUSD, 3960 Centinela Avenue

• Venice Senior High School, LAUSD, 13000 Venice Boulevard, established in 1910 (then called "Venice Union Polytechnic High School") when classes were held in an old lagoon bathhouse two blocks from the beach. It moved to a new neo-romanesque structure at its present location a decade later.

• Venice Community Adult School, LAUSD, 13000 Venice Boulevard

• Phoenix Continuation School, LAUSD, 12971 Zanja Street

• Grand View Boulevard Elementary School, LAUSD

As of 2014 the Wiseburn School District allows parents in Mar Vista to send their children to Wiseburn schools on inter-district transfers.

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View the school ratings and reviews here.

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Sources:

Wikipedia