Santa Monica is a coastal city west of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located in Santa Monica Bay, bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles - Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood to the northeast, West Los Angeles to the east, Mar Vista to the southeast, and Venice to the south. The population of the Census Bureau for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736.
Due partly to the pleasant climate, Santa Monica became a popular resort town in the early 20th century. The city has been experiencing explosions since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its central city center, significant job growth and increased tourism. The Santa Monica Pier and the Pacific Park remain a popular destination.
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History
Santa Monica has long been inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica is called Kecheek in Tongva. The first non-native group to set foot in the area was the Gaspar de Portolà penj explorer party, who was camped near the Barrington and Ohio Street junctions on August 3, 1769. Named after the Christian saint Monica, there are two stories of how the city's name appears. Someone said it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica (Saint Augustine's mother), but her feast is May 4th. Another version says it was named by Juan CrespÃÆ' because of a pair of springs, Kuruvungna Springs (Serra Springs), reminiscent of the tears of Saint Monica spilling his son's initial displeasure.
In Los Angeles, several battles were fought by Californios. After the Mexican-American War, Mexico signed the Agreement Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave Mexicans and Californios life in certain countries of inalienable rights. The sovereignty of the US government in California began on February 2, 1848.
In the 1870s, Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connect Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a jetty to the bay. The first town hall was a simple brick building in 1873, then a beer hall, and now part of the Santa Monica Hostel. It is Santa Monica's oldest old structure. In 1885, the city's first hotel was the Santa Monica Hotel.
The entertainment docks became very popular in the first decades of the 20th century and the vast Pacific Electric Railroad brings people to the city shores from across the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, more and more Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village is near Long Wharf while a small number of Chinese live or work in Santa Monica and Venice. Both ethnic minorities are often viewed differently by the White Americans who are often disposed of well into Japan but humbled against the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen are an integral economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community.
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a factory in 1922 at Clover Field (Santa Monica Airport) for Douglas Aircraft Company. In 1924, four Douglas-made aircraft took off from Clover Field to try the world's first air travel. Two aircraft returned after traveling 27,553 miles (44,342 km) in 175 days, and were greeted on their return on September 23, 1924, with a crowd of 200,000 (massive forecasts). The Douglas Company (later McDonnell Douglas) kept the facility in town until the 1960s.
The Great Depression hit Santa Monica deeply. One report provided jobs across the city in 1933 for only 1,000. Hotels and owners of bankrupt office buildings. In the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica (along with neighboring Los Angeles). The Federal Employment Project Administration helps build several buildings, especially the Town Hall . The Post Office Office and Barnum Hall (Santa Monica High School auditorium) are also among other WPA projects.
Douglas's business grew astronomically with the start of World War II, employing some 44,000 people in 1943. In order to defend itself from airstrikes, the designers of Warner Brothers Studios set up an intricate camouflage disguising factories and airfields. RAND Corporation started as a Douglas Company project in 1945, and turned to an independent think tank on May 14, 1948. RAND eventually acquired a 15-acre (61,000 mÃ, ²) campus between the Civic Center and the harbor entrance.
The completion of the Santa Monica Toll Road in 1966 brought a promise of new prosperity, albeit at the expense of the Pico neighborhood that has become a prominent West-African-American enclave.
Beach volleyball is believed to have been developed by Duke Kahanamoku in Santa Monica during the 1920s.
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Tourist attractions and cultural resources
The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (carousel) is a National Historic Landmark. It is located at the Santa Monica Pier, built in 1909. La Monica's ballroom on the dock was once the largest ballroom in the US and is the source for many of the national New Year's broadcast networks. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an important music venue for decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the 1960s. McCabe's Guitar Shop is a premier acoustic performance space as well as a retail outlet. Bergamot Station is a city-owned art gallery complex that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The city is also home to the California Heritage Museum and dollhouse and Angels Attic toy museum. The New West Symphony is a resident orchestra in Barnum Hall. They are also the resident orchestra of the Oxnard Performing Arts Center and the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Santa Monica has three main shopping districts, Montana Avenue on the north side, downtown Downtown, and Main Street on the south end. Each has its own unique feelings and personality. Montana Avenue is a smorgasbord of luxury boutique shops, restaurants, and small offices that generally feature more luxurious shopping. The Main Street district offers a blend of exclusive clothing, restaurants and other eclectic retail.
The Downtown District is home to the Third Street Promenade, a special outdoor pedestrian shopping area that stretches for three blocks between Wilshire Blvd. and Broadway (not the same Broadway in downtown and southern Los Angeles). Third Street is closed for vehicles for three blocks to allow people to walk, hang out, shop and enjoy street performers. Santa Monica Place, featuring Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom in a three-level outdoor environment, is at the southern end of the Promenade. After a period of rebuilding, the mall reopened in the fall of 2010 as a shopping, entertainment and modern dining complex with more outdoor space.
Santa Monica hosts the annual Santa Monica Film Festival.
The oldest movie theater in this city is Majestic. Opened in 1912 and also known as the Mayfair Theater, the theater, has been closed since the Northridge earthquake of 1994. The Aero Theater (now operated by American Cinematheque) and Criterion Theater was built in the 1930s and still feature films. The Santa Monica Promenade itself supports more than a dozen movie screens.
Palisades Park stretches along a collapsed cliff overlooking the Pacific and is a favorite walking area for viewing the ocean. It includes totem pole, camera obscura, artwork, bench, picnic area, pale square tanque, and toilet.
Tongva Park occupies 6 hectares between Ocean Avenue and Main Street, just south of Colorado Avenue. The park includes scenery, amphitheater, playground, garden, fountain, picnic area, and toilets.
The staircase of Santa Monica, a long, steep staircase that leads from the north of San Vicente to Santa Monica Canyon, is a popular spot for outdoor practice. Some local residents complained that the stairs had become too popular, and attracted many sportsmen into the millions of property-rich neighborhoods.
The natives and tourists alike have enjoyed the Santa Monica Rugby Club since 1972. The club has been very successful from the start, the latter winning back-to-back national championships in 2005 and 2006. Santa Monica defeated the Boston Irish Wolfhounds 57-19 in Final of Division 1, convincingly claimed their second consecutive American title on June 4, 2006, in San Diego. They offer a growing program of men, women, and children. The club recently joined the Rugby Super League.
Santa Monica has two hospitals: Saint John's Health Center and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. His funeral was the Woodlawn Memorial.
Santa Monica has several newspapers and magazines, including Santa Monica Star, Santa Monica Daily Press, Santa Monica Mirror, Santa Monica Observer , Santa Monica Magazine , and Santa Monica Sun .
Geography
The city of Santa Monica rests on a mostly flat slope that leads to Ocean Avenue and to the south. The tall cliff separates the north side of the city from the beach. Santa Monica borders on the L.A. neighborhood. Pacific Palisades to the north and Venice to the south. To the west, Santa Monica has a 3 mile long coastline in front of Santa Monica Bay, and east of the city limits is the Los Angeles West Los Angeles and Brentwood communities.
Climate
Santa Monica has a coastal Mediterranean climate (KÃÆ'¶ppen Csb ). Santa Monica enjoys an average of 310 days of sunshine each year. It is in the resilience zone of USDA 11a plants. Due to its location, located in the wide and open Santa Monica Bay, the morning fog is a common phenomenon in May, June and early July (caused by variations in ocean temperatures and currents). Like other residents of the greater Los Angeles area, residents have specific terminology for this phenomenon: "May Gray" and "June Gloom". Cloudy skies usually occur on a June morning, but usually a strong sun burns the fog during the day. In late winter/early summer, fog every day is a phenomenon as well. It happens all of a sudden and may last several hours or past sunset time. Nevertheless, it will sometimes remain cloudy and cool throughout the day during June, even when other parts of the Los Angeles area enjoy the clear skies and warmer temperatures. Sometimes, the sun can shine on east 20th Street, while the beach area is overcast. As a general rule, beach temperatures of 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 6 degrees Celsius) are colder than the mainland during the summer, and 5-10 degrees warmer during the winter evenings.
It was also in September that the highest temperatures tended to be achieved. It was winter, when the hot, dry winds in Santa Anas were the most common. Conversely, temperatures that exceed 10 degrees below average are rare.
The rainy season starts from late October to late March. A winter storm usually approaches from the northwest and passes quickly across Southland. There was very little rain for the rest of the year. The total annual rainfall is unpredictable because the rainy years are sometimes followed by drought. There was never any snow or ice, but there was hail.
Santa Monica usually enjoys cold winds blowing from the ocean, which tends to keep the air fresh and clean. Therefore, smoke is less a problem for Santa Monica than elsewhere around Los Angeles. However, in the fall months of September to November, Santa Ana winds will sometimes blow from the east, bringing the smoky inland air to the shore.
Environment
Santa Monica is one of the most environmentally friendly municipalities in the country. The city first proposed its Sustainable City Plan in 1992 and in 1994, was one of the first cities in the country to formally adopt a comprehensive sustainability plan, establishing waste reduction and water conservation policies for both the public and private sectors through the Office of Sustainability and environment. Eighty-two percent of public utilities in the city now operate with alternative fuels, including nearly 100% of the city bus system, making it the largest fleet in the country. Santa Monica's fleet and bus fleets are now their source of natural gas from Redeem, a renewable and renewable natural gas renewable supplier originating from Southern California derived from non-fracked methane biogas produced from organic TPA waste.
Santa Monica has adopted the Energy Self-Reliance Initiative, with the goal of achieving full energy independence by 2020 (compared to 33% of California's renewable energy target). In the last 15 years, greenhouse gas emissions have been cut by nearly 10% compared to 1990 levels, with further reductions planned by the Sustainability Office.
The urban runoff facility (SMURFF), the first of its kind in the US, captures and treats 3.5 million gallons (13,000 m 3 ) of water every week that would otherwise flow into the bay through storm-flows and sell them back to the end user inside the city for reuse as gray water, while bio-swales throughout the city allow rainwater to seep in and replenish groundwater supplies. Ground water supply, in turn, plays an important role in the Municipal Water Master Plan, where Santa Monica has set a goal of achieving 100% water independence by 2020. The city has many programs designed to promote water conservation among the population, including rebates of $ 1.50 per square foot for those who turn the intensive water lawn into more local drought gardens that require less water.
Santa Monica also instituted green building codes in which simply building the code automatically made the building equivalent to the LEED Green Building Council US standard. The city Main Library, for example, is one of LEED's certified or LEED buildings in the city. Built on 200,000 gallons of cistern that collects rainwater filtered from the roof. Water is used for landscape irrigation.
Since 2009, Santa Monica has developed a Non-Zero Strategic Operation Plan where the city will set a goal to divert at least 95% of all waste away from landfills, and to recycling and composting, by 2030. The plan includes waste food composting program , which diverts 3 million pounds of restaurant waste from landfills every year. Currently, 77% of all solid wastes produced throughout the city are diverted from landfills.
The city is also in the process of implementing a 5-year and 20-year Bicycle Action Plan with the goal of reaching 14 to 35% share of bike transport mode by 2030 through the installation of improved bike infrastructure throughout the city. Other environmental-focused initiatives include roadside recycling, roadside compass bins (other than trash, yard and recycling bin), farmers' markets, community gardens, gardening, urban forest initiatives, hazardous materials collection services, green business certification, city bus system and Metro Rail Expo Line (replacing the former Pacific Electric Santa Monica Air Line which was operated in 1953).
Cityscape
Demographics
The population of Santa Monica has increased from 417 in 1880 to 89,736 in 2010.
2010
The US Census 2010 reported Santa Monica had a population of 89,736. Population density was 10,662.6 people per square mile (4,116.9/km ²). The makeup of the Santa Monica race is 69,663 (77.6%) White (70.1% Non-Hispanic White), 3.526 (3.9%) African American, 338 (0.4%) Native American, 8.053 (9.0 %) Asia, 124 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 4,047 (4.5%) of other races, and 3,985 (4.4%) of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 11,716 people (13.1%).
The Census reported that 87,610 people (97.6% of the population) lived in households, 1,299 (1.4%) living in unembienced groups, and 827 (0.9%) were institutionalized.
There are 46,917 households, of which 7,835 (16.7%) have children under the age of 18 living in them, 13,092 (27.9%) are married couples living together, 3,510 (7.5%) Having a married woman without a husband now, 1,327 (2.8%) had a housewife without a wife's presence. There were 2,867 (6.1%) unmarried unmarried couples, and 416 (0.9%) couples or married couples. 22,716 households (48.4%) consist of individuals and 5,551 (11.8%) have a self-sufficient person aged 65 or older. The average household size is 1.87. There are 17,929 families (38.2% of all households); average family size is 2.79.
The population is spread by 12,580 people (14.0%) under the age of 18, 6,442 people (7.2%) aged 18 to 24, 32,552 people (36.3%) aged 25 to 44, 24,746 persons (27.6% aged 45 to 64 years, and 13.416 people (15.0%) aged 65 years or older. The median age was 40.4 years. For every 100 females, there are 93.2 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 91.2 men.
There are 50,912 housing units with an average density of 6,049.5 per square mile (2,335.7/km²), of which 13,315 (28.4%) are occupied owners, and 33,602 (71.6%) are occupied by tenants. Homeowner vacancy rate is 1.1%; the rental vacancy rate is 5.1%. 30,067 people (33.5% of the population) live in housing units occupied by owners and 57,543 people (64.1%) live in rental housing units.
According to the 2010 US Census, Santa Monica has an average household income of $ 73,649, with 11.2% of the population living below the federal poverty line.
2000
In the 2000 census, there were 84,084 people, 44,497 households, and 16,775 families in the city. Population density was 10,178.7 souls per square mile (3,930.4/km ²). There are 47,863 housing units with an average density of 5,794.0 per square mile (2,237.3/km ²). City's racial makeup is 78.29% White, 7.25% Asian, 3.78% African American, 0.47% Native American, 0.10% Pacific Island, 5.97% of other races, and 4.13% % of two or more races. 13.44% of the population are Hispanic or Latino from any race. There are 44,497 households, of which 15.8% have children under the age of 18, 27.5% are married couples living together, 7.5% have non-husbands female households, and 62.3% are not family. 51.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.6% had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size is 1.83 and the average family size is 2.80.
The city of Santa Monica is consistently among the most educated cities in the United States, with 23.8 percent of all residents holding a bachelor's degree.
The population varied in age, with 14.6% below 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 40.1% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% 65 years or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 women, there are 93.0 men. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 91.3 males.
According to 2009 estimates, the average income for households in the city is $ 71,095, and the average income for families is $ 109,410. Men have an average income of $ 55,689 compared to $ 42,948 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 42,874. 10.4% of the population and 5.4% of families are below the poverty line. Of the total population, 9.9% of those under the age of 18 and 10.2% of those aged 65 and older live below the poverty line.
Crime
In 2006, crime in Santa Monica affected 4.41% of the population, slightly lower than the national average crime rate of that year of 4.48%. The majority of these are property crimes, affecting 3.74% of Santa Monica's population in 2006; this is higher than the price for Los Angeles County (2.76%) and California (3.17%), but lower than the national average (3.91%). This per-capita crime rate is calculated based on Santa Monica's full-time population of about 85,000. However, the Santa Monica Police Department has suggested a significantly lower level of per capita crime, as tourists, workers and beach seekers can increase the city's daytime population to between 250,000 and 450,000 people.
Violent crime affected 0.67% of the population in Santa Monica in 2006, in line with Los Angeles County (0.65%), but was higher than the average for California (0.53%) and the state (0.55% ).
Hate crime is usually very minimal in Santa Monica, with only one incident reported in 2007. However, the city experienced a spike in anti-Islam hate crimes in 2001, following the September 11 attacks. The crime rate of hate returned to the level of at least 2000 in 2002.
In 2006, Santa Monica voters passed "Measure Y" with 65% of the majority, who moved the publication of quotations to smoke marijuana to the bottom of the police priority list. A 2009 study by Santa Monica Daily Press shows since the law came into force in 2007, Santa Monica Police has "not issued citations for offenses involving adults, personal use of marijuana in private homes."
In June 2011, the Boston Whitey Bulger gangster was arrested in Santa Monica after being wanted for 16 years. He has lived in the area for 15 years.
The shooting at Santa Monica in 2013 caused six (including offenders) to be killed and five others injured.
Gang activity
The neighborhood of Pico Santa Monica (south of Santa Monica Freeway) undergoes some gang activity. The city estimates there are about 50 gang members based in Santa Monica, although some community organizers have denied this claim. Gang activity has been prevalent for decades in the Pico neighborhood.
In October 1998, alleged Culver City 13 gang member Omar Sevilla, 21, of Culver City was killed. Several hours after the shooting of Sevilla, German tourist Horst Fietze was killed. A few days later, Juan Martin Campos, 23, a Santa Monica City employee, was shot and killed. Police believe this is a murderous vengeance for Omar Sevilla's death. Less than twenty-four hours later, Javier Cruz was injured in a shooting from outside his home on the 17th and Michigan.
In 1999, there was a double killing at the Westside Clothing store on Lincoln Boulevard. During the incident, members of the Culver City gang David "Puppet" Robles and Jesse "Psycho" Garcia entered the masked shop and started firing, killing Anthony and Michael Juarez. They then ran out to a holiday vehicle driven by members of the third Culver City gang, who is now also in custody. The clothing store is believed to be a local hangout for Santa Monica gang members. The death toll included two men from Northern California who had just visited the shopkeeper, their cousin, to see if they could open a similar shop in their area. Police said the incident was in retaliation for the shooting committed by Santa Monica a 13-day gang before the Juarez brothers were shot dead.
In addition to competition with the Culver City gang, gang members also clashed with Venetians and Los Angeles West gangs. Major rivals in the region include Venice 13, Graveyard Gangster Crips, and the Venetian Shoreline Crips gang in the Oakwood area of ​​Venezia, California.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District provides public education at both elementary and secondary levels. In addition to the traditional home school model of early schooling, SMASH (Rumah Monolica Alternative School) is "the K-8 public school of choice with team teachers and multi-age classrooms".
Primary school
The district has eight public elementary schools in Santa Monica:
- Edison Language Academy
- Franklin Elementary School
- Give Primary School
- John Muir Elementary School
- McKinley Elementary School
- Santa Monica Alternative School House [SMASH]
- Roosevelt Elementary School
- Will Rogers Learning Community
High school
The district has three public high schools in Santa Monica: Johna Adams Middle School, Lincoln Middle School and SMASH.
SMA
The district has three high schools in Santa Monica: Olympic High School, Malibu High School and Santa Monica High School.
Private school
Private schools in the city include:
- The Carlthorp School
- Santa Monica Montessori School
- Crossroads School
- Saint Monica Catholic Primary School
- Concord High School
- Pacifica Christian High School
- Lighthouse Christian Academy
- St. Anne Catholic School
- Catholic High School Saint Monica
- New Street School
- PS1 Pluralistic School
Other education
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Post-secondary
Santa Monica College is a community college founded in 1929. Many SMC graduates transfer to the University of California system. It occupies 35 hectares (14 hectares) and enrolls 30,000 students annually. RAND Frederick S. Pardee Graduate School, associated with RAND Corporation, is the largest US public policy PhD producer. The California Institute of Art - Los Angeles is also located in Santa Monica near Santa Monica Airport. Universities and colleges within a 22 mile (35 km) radius of Santa Monica include Santa Monica College, Los Angeles Antioch University, Loyola Marymount University, Mount St. University University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, USC, West Los Angeles College, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Occidental College (Oxy), Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Valley College, and Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine.
Public library system
Santa Monica Public Library consists of the Main Library in the downtown area, plus four neighborhood branches: Fairview, Montana Avenue, Ocean Park, and Pico Boulevard.
Transportation
Bicycle
Santa Monica has a bike action plan and recently launched a bike-sharing system in November 2015. The city is traversed by Marvin Braude Bike Trail. Santa Monica has received the Bicycle Friendly Community Award (Bronze in 2009, Silver in 2013) by the League of American Bicyclists. Local bike advocacy organizations include Santa Monica Spoke, a local branch of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. Santa Monica is considered one of the leaders for infrastructure and bicycle programs in Los Angeles County.
In terms of the number of bike accidents, Santa Monica ranks as one of the worst (# 2) of 102 California cities with a population of 50,000-100,000, a ranking consistent with the city's composite rating. In 2007 and 2008, local police cracked down on Santa Monica's critical Critical Mass that has been controversial, putting a silencer on tradition.
Motor vehicles
Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) begins in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean and heads east. The Santa Monica Freeway between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles has the distinction of being one of the busiest highways throughout North America. After crossing Los Angeles County, I-10 crossed seven more countries, ending in Jacksonville, Florida. In Santa Monica, there are road signs pointing this route as Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway. State Route 2 (Santa Monica Boulevard) begins in Santa Monica, barely grazing State Route 1 on Lincoln Boulevard, and continues northeast through Los Angeles County, through the Angeles National Forest, across the San Gabriel Mountains as the Angeles Crest Highway, ending at Wrightwood. Santa Monica is also the historic western (Pacific) tip of the US Route 66. Close to the eastern boundary of Santa Monica, Sepulveda Boulevard reaches from Long Beach in the south, to the northern end of San Fernando Valley. Right east of Santa Monica is Interstate 405, "San Diego Freeway", the main north-south route in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California.
The city of Santa Monica has purchased a fully electric zero-truck duty truck. The vehicle will be equipped with the Scelzi utility body, it is based on the Isuzu N series chassis, the UQM PowerPhase 100 sophisticated electric motor and is the only electric truck built in the US offered for sale in the United States in 2009.
Bus
The city of Santa Monica runs its own bus service, Big Blue Bus, which also serves most of West Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A Big Blue Bus is displayed prominently in the action movie Speed ​​.
The city of Santa Monica is also served by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) bus line. The Metro also complements the Big Blue service, because when the Big Blue route does not operate overnight, Metro bus makes many Big Blue Bus stops, in addition to the MTA stop.
Light rails
The design and construction on the 6.6 mile (10.6 km) extension of the Expo Line from Culver City to Santa Monica began in September 2011, with service beginning on May 20, 2016. Santa Monica Metro Station includes 26th Street/Bergamot, 17th Street/Santa Monica College, and Downtown Santa Monica. The time travel between downtown Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles is about 47 minutes long.
The historical aspect of the Expo route route is worth noting. It uses the right-of-way for the Santa Monica Air Line that provides electrically-powered passenger service between Los Angeles and Santa Monica from the 1920s. The service was discontinued in 1953 but the delivery of diesel-powered goods to a warehouse along the route continued until March 11, 1988. The neglect of the path raised concerns within the community and all road rights were purchased from the South Pacific by Los Angeles Metropolitan. Transportation Authority. The line was built in 1875 as a Los Angeles and Steam-powered Independence Railroad to carry mining ore to ships in the port of Santa Monica and as a passenger sightseeing train to the coast.
Subway
Since the mid-1980s, proposals have been made to extend the subway of the Purple Line to Santa Monica under Wilshire Boulevard. There are no plans at this time to complete the "subway to the sea," a project worth $ 5 billion.
Airports and ports
The city owns and operates a public aviation airport, Santa Monica Airport, which has been the site of several important aviation achievements. Commercial flights are available to residents at Los Angeles International Airport, a few miles south of Santa Monica.
Like other cities in Los Angeles County, Santa Monica is dependent on Long Beach Port and Los Angeles Harbor for international cargo ships. In the 1890s, Santa Monica once competed with Wilmington, California, and San Pedro for recognition as "Port of Los Angeles" (see History of Santa Monica, California).
City services
Emergency services
Two major hospitals are within the city limits of Santa Monica, Santa Monica UCLA Hospital and St. John's Hospital. John's. There are four fire stations that provide medical and fire response inside the city which has 6 Paramedic, 1 Trucking company, 1 team of Dangerous Materials and 1 Urban Search & amp; Rescuers. Santa Monica Fire Department has its own Delivery Center. Ambulance transportation is provided by AmeriCare Ambulance Services.
Law enforcement services are provided by the Santa Monica Police Department
The Los Angeles County Health Services Department operates the Simms/Mann Health and Fitness Center in Santa Monica. The West Department Regional Health Office is located at Simms/Mann Center.
Internet Services
Santa Monica has a city wireless network that provides several free city Wi-Fi hotspots distributed around the City.
Government
Santa Monica is governed by the City Council of Santa Monica, a governing body of Councils with seven elected members. Currently, the mayor is Ted Winterer, and Pro Tempore's Mayor is Gleam Davis. The five current board members are Sue Himmelrich, Kevin McKeown, Tony Vazquez, Pam O'Connor, and Terry O'Day.
In the State Legislature of California, Santa Monica is in Senate District 26, represented by Democrat Ben Allen, and in the 50th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Richard Bloom.
In the United States House of Representatives, Santa Monica is in the 33rd congress district of California, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu.
Economy
Santa Monica is home to many well-known business headquarters, including Hulu, Universal Music Group, Entertainment Illumination, Saban Capital Group, Miramax, Lionsgate Films, RAND Corporation, Beachbody, and Macerich. Atlantic Aviation is at Santa Monica Airport. National Public Radio radio station, KCRW, is on the Santa Monica College campus.
A number of Santa Monica-based game development studios, making it the premier location for the industry. These include:
- Activision Blizzard (Including Activision)
- Treyarch
- Cloud Imperium Games (Star Citizen Creator)
- Naughty Dog (Creator Crash Bandicoot (1996-1999), Jak & amp; Daxter and Uncharted franchise)
- PUBG Corporation (North America Station, developing Mirama in PUBG)
- SIE Santa Monica Studio (Creator of God of War)
- Riot Games, the creator of the League of Legends just beyond the eastern boundary of the city
- VCA Veterinary Hospital is also outside the eastern city limits.
Fatburger headquarters is in Santa Monica. TOMS Shoes has its headquarters in Santa Monica.
Former Santa Monica business including Douglas Aircraft (now joined Boeing), MySpace (now headquartered in Beverly Hills), and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In December 1996, GeoCities was headquartered on the third floor of 1918 Main Street in Santa Monica.
Santa Monica has a strong small business community; Fundera ranked the city's 6th best city for small businesses in the 2016 study.
Recently, Santa Monica has emerged as a regional hub of Los Angeles called Silicon Beach, and serves as home to hundreds of venture-funded startups.
Top entrepreneurs
According to the 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2012-2013, the top companies in the city are:
Sports
Marathon men and women ran through parts of Santa Monica during the 1984 Summer Olympics. The Santa Monica Track Club has many famous athlete athletes, including many Olympic gold medalists. Santa Monica is home to Southern California Aquatics, founded by Olympic swimmers Clay Evans and Bonnie Adair. Santa Monica is also home to the Santa Monica Rugby Club, a semi-professional team competing in the Pacific Rugby Premiership, the highest level rugby club competition in the United States.
During the Summer Olympics 2028. Santa Monica will hold beach volleyball and surfing.
In popular culture
Movies and TV
Hundreds of films have been taken or partly installed in the city of Santa Monica. One of Santa Monica's oldest exterior shots is the Buster Keaton Spite Marriage (1929) which shows a lot from 2nd Street. This comedy is Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) including some scenes filming in Santa Monica, including scenes along California Incline, which leads to the treasure trove of the movie, "The Big W". The film Sylvester Stallone Rocky III (1982) shows Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed training to fight Clubber Lang by running on Santa Monica Beach, and Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) including Santa's Settings Monica. Indie Henry Jaglom Someone to Love (1987), the last film in which Orson Welles appeared, took place at the honorable Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica. Heathers (1989) used John Adams Secondary School in Santa Monica for many exterior photos. Truth About Cats & amp; Dogs (1996) is set up entirely in Santa Monica, specifically the Palisades Park area, and has a radio station that resembles KCRW at Santa Monica College. 17 Again (2009) shot in Samohi. Other films showing Santa Monica's extraordinary exterior photos include Fletch (1985), Species (1995), Get Shorty (1995), and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Biography film Richard Rossi Aimee Semple McPherson opened and closed on the beach in Santa Monica. Iron Man featured the Santa Monica dock and the surrounding community when Tony Stark tested his experimental flight suit.
Documentaries Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) and the dramatic film associated Lords of Dogtown (2005) are both about influential skateboarding cultures in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica in the 1970s.
Dermaga Santa Monica ditampilkan dalam banyak film, termasuk Mereka Menembak Kuda, Tidak Mereka? (1969), The Sting (1973), Orang-Orang Bengis (1986), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Clean Slate (1994), Forrest Gump (1994), The Net (1995), Love Stinks (1999), Seluler (2004), The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006), Iron Man (2008) dan Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).
A number of television series have been created in Santa Monica, including Baywatch, My Three Company, Pacific Blue, and My Personal Practice . The Santa Monica pier is featured in the main theme of the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles . In Buffy the Vampire Slayer , the main exterior of Sunnydale city, including the famous "sun sign", is in Santa Monica in many places on Olympic Boulevard.
The Doors <1991> and Speed ​​<1994> movies showcased vehicles from the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus line, relative to the era depicted in the film.
The city of Santa Monica (and especially Santa Monica Airport) is featured in the disaster movie Roland Emmerich 2012 (2009). A 10.9 magnitude earthquake devastated the airport and surrounding areas as a group of survivors fled in private planes. The pier Santa Monica and the whole city sank into the Pacific Ocean after the earthquake.
Literature
Raymond Chandler's most famous character, private detective Philip Marlowe, often has some of his adventures in a place called "Bay City", which was modeled in the Santa Monica depression era. In Marlowe's world, Bay City is a "city wide open", where gambling and other crimes evolve due to corrupt and ineffective police forces.
The main character of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot (novel) is a shipbuilder from Santa Monica.
At Al Capone Does My Shirts , Flanagans moved to Alcatraz from Santa Monica.
Tennessee Williams stayed (while working at MGM Studios) at a hotel on Ocean Avenue in the 1940s. At that location he wrote The Glass Menagerie. The short story titled Mattress by Tomato Patch is installed near Santa Monica Beach, and mentions the hours seen in most of the city, high in the Broadway Building, on Broadway near 2nd Street.
Music
- Universal Music Group is based in Santa Monica. Some labels like Aftermath Entertainment (started by Dr. Dre), Interscope (started by Jimmy Iovine), A & amp; M Records, Geffen Records, Shady Records, and G-Unit Records (created by 50 Cent & Sha Money XL) based in Santa Monica, CA.
- The National Academy of Arts and Sciences is based in Santa Monica on Olympic Boulevard.
- The modern rock album Theory of a Deadman entitled "Santa Monica", is the first person's account of a girl leaving her other significant to start a new life in Santa Monica.
- The band Everclear released a song titled "Santa Monica" in 1995, which became their first mainstream hit.
- Band Savage Garden also released a song titled "Santa Monica" from their # 3 US album Savage Garden (1997).
- John Mayer's Song In Your Atmosphere mentions Wilshire Boulevard.
- The Australian duo, Angus and Julia Stone, released their single "Santa Monica Dream" on the album "Down the Way".
- The ska/reggae band, Bedouin Soundclash has a song called "Santa Monica".
- One of the few songs sung by satirical Tom Lehrer since the 1970s is a homage to the Jewish calendar holiday titled "I Spend Hanukkah in Santa Monica".
- Santa Monica is referenced throughout Jack's Mannequin's debut album Everything In Transit .
- In 1968, British singer-songwriter Noel Harrison released a song and album titled Santa Monica Pier .
- In 1948, band leader Kay Kyser released 78 recording of the novelty song "When Veronica Played Harmonica (Down at Santa Monica Pier)".
- Kim Kibum, a member of the popular Korean boy band Super Junior attended Santa Monica High School
- The song System Of A Down "Lost in Hollywood" mentions the city.
- Linkin Park Band was named a tribute to Lincoln Park owned by Santa Monica.
- Richard Rossi released a song titled "Santa Monica," which celebrates Santa Monica Pier, on his album "Seasons of My Heart."
- The Sheryl Crow song All I Wanna Do mentions Santa Monica Boulevard
Video games
Santa Monica is featured in the video game Driver (1999), True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Vampires: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004 ), Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004) as a fictional district - Santa Maria Beach, Destroy All Humans! (2004), American Wasteland Tony Hawk (2005), LA Rush (2005), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2008 ), Car Race-O-Rama (2009) as a fictional city - Santa Carburera, Grand Theft Auto V (2013) as a fictitious district - Del Perro, Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013) as a fictitious US military base - Fort Santa Monica, The Crew (2014) and Need for Speed ​​â € <â € < (2015).
See also
- The shooting of Santa Monica 2013
- Aragon Ballroom (Sea Park, Santa Monica, California)
- List of cities and cities in California
- List of Santa Monica City Planned Historical Landmarks
- List of people from Santa Monica, California
- Muscle Beach
- Santa Monica neighborhood
- Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founder and helper of Santa Monica
- List of public art in Santa Monica, California
References
External links
- Official website
- Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
- Santa Monica Little League
- Santa Monica Public Library
- Santa Monica travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Santa Monica, California on Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Weekend in Santa Monica - a slideshow by The New York Times
- Santa Monica City in the Wayback Machine (archived February 18, 1999)
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