San Vicente Boulevard (Santa Monica)
San Vicente Boulevard is an east-west street in Santa Monica and Brentwood, in the Westside region of Los Angeles, California.
Route
The boulevard is the northernmost major street in Santa Monica, and runs through downtown Brentwood, Los Angeles. It begins from Palisades Park at the intersection with Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, inland through Brentwood and past the Sawtelle Veterans Home campus, to end at its intersection with Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles. South of the intersection it is renamed Federal Avenue. near the Veteran Administration and at the entrance of Westwood.
Intersections with Ocean Avenue and 7th Street in Santa Monica lead down to Santa Monica Canyon and on to the Pacific Coast Highway. The intersection with 26th Street (north) connects with Sunset Boulevard and Mandeville Canyon. For most of its length, it runs generally parallel and south of Sunset Boulevard and north of Montana Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard.
San Vicente is useful as a thoroughfare due to its lack of traffic lights, except 7th and 26th Streets, until downtown Brentwood at the intersection with Bundy Drive.
- Public transit
The Santa Monica Transit Big Blue Bus Line 4 runs along the entire length of San Vicente Boulevard, enroute from downtown Santa Monica to West Los Angeles. [1]
Features
San Vicente Boulevard is four lanes wide with a large landscaped median along its entire length, planted with ~120 large Coral trees (Erythrina caffra), along its center. Those in the western section within Los Angeles, between 26th Street and Bringham Avenue, are a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. [2] The median is popular with joggers.
Other features along the boulevard include The Brentwood Country Mart at 26th and San Vicente, and the private Brentwood Country Club and golf course.
The Santa Monica and Brentwood neighborhoods north of San Vicente Boulevard often have larger properties with distinctive residences.
- History
The Mezzaluna Trattoria, formerly located at 11750 San Vicente Boulevard, was part of the O. J. Simpson murder case. Nicole Brown Simpson was a frequent diner, and her friend Ronald Goldman was a waiter at the restaurant. The building now houses a Peets Coffee and Tea shop.
See also
- List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside
- Streets in Los Angeles, California
- Streets in Los Angeles County, California
References