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6 unusual facts about Culver City


Carl J. Meade

Prior to entering active duty in the United States Air Force, Meade was a Hughes Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and an electronics design engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.

Jack Canfield

Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California.

Mike Gregorian

Gregorian grew up in Culver City, California where he played forward for the Fram club of Culver-Palisades which won the 1986 McGuire Cup (U-19 national championship).

Tanya Barfield

On June 29, 2008, her play Of Equal Measure, NAACP Theatre Awards nominee, premiered at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, California through the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Queen Latifah Show

The Queen Latifah Show is taped in front of a live studio audience at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, and airs in broadcast syndication on CBS Television Stations.

You Must Love Me

Madonna filmed the music video for "You Must Love Me" on 31 August 1996 at Culver Studios in Culver City, California while she was eight months pregnant with her daughter Lourdes.


Bob Mosher

He was best known for his work on Amos and Andy, Meet Mr. McNutley, Leave It To Beaver, Ichabod and Me, Bringing Up Buddy, and The Munsters, along with his co-writer Joe Connelly who is buried in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.

California State Route 187

Further east, it briefly forms the boundary between Palms and Culver City and passes near Sony Pictures Studios.

CulverLand

CulverLand is a temporary artwork and functioning game in Culver City, California, United States, created by John Derevlany.

Del Rey, Los Angeles

According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Del Rey is surrounded on the northwest, north, northeast and east by Culver City, on the southeast by Playa Vista, on the southwest and west by Marina del Rey and on the northwest by Venice.

Julia Phillips

Phillips died in West Hollywood, California, at the age of 57, from cancer on New Year's Day, 2002, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Karl Paymah

While attending Culver City High School in Culver City, California, Paymah was a two-sport standout in both football and track.

KCBS-FM

Although Jack proclaims that the station is run "in a dumpy little building in beautiful downtown Culver City", KCBS-FM was actually at the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, about ½ mile north of Culver City.

Peggy Drake

While filming The Tuttles of Tahiti with Charles Laughton (on a sound stage in Culver City), Drake became seriously ill with pneumonia, delaying filming for two months, and causing her to lose so much weight that she had to adopt a diet of sweet potato pudding to regain her figure before filming resumed.

The Paradine Case

Although some external shots show the Lake District in Cumbria, the rest of the footage was shot entirely on three sets at Selznick's Culver City, California lot a first in Selznick's career as an independent producer.

Westchester, Los Angeles

The main part of Westchester is flanked by Del Rey and Culver City on the north, Inglewood and Lennox on the east, Del Aire and El Segundo on the south and Playa del Rey on the west.


see also

American Electric

American Electric Corporation, a company that manufactured various electronic appliances and devices in Culver City, California

Avro Canada C102 Jetliner

Nevertheless, only a few months later, the enigmatic Howard Hughes first learned of the design and leased the Jetliner prototype for testing, flying it for a few circuits when it arrived in Culver City, California.

Carlson Park, Culver City, California

It is named for Dr. Paul Carlson Park, a city park in the center of the neighborhood, which is named for Culver City native Dr. Paul Carlson, a medical missionary martyred in the former Belgian Congo.

CulverLand

"CulverLand" is located in Culver City, California, on the sidewalk just east of 9400 Culver Blvd. (near the Culver Hotel).

Imageworks

Sony Pictures Imageworks, a visual effects and character animation company headquartered in Culver City, California, USA

Ivy Substation

In the 1990s, the Culver City Redevelopment Agency and the City of Los Angeles renovated the building to use as a community theater by the The Actors' Gang.

Mar Vista, Los Angeles

Mar Vista's street and other boundaries are: the San Diego Freeway to the Culver City boundary at Venice Boulevard on the northeast, the Culver City line on the southeast, Walgrove Avenue on the southwest and the Santa Monica city boundary on the northwest.

Pacific Electric

Comedian Harold Lloyd highlighted the popularity and utility of the system in an extended sequence in his 1924 film, Girl Shy, where, after finding one Red Car too crowded, he commandeers another and drove at breakneck speed through the streets of Culver City and Los Angeles.

Uruapan

Also, the firefighters of Uruapan received personal equipment and vehicles from Culver City a few years ago to do a better job; they also received equipment from the Kansas City Fire Department.

Westfield Culver City

Film director Kevin Smith has dubbed Westfield Culver City his favorite "black mall."

Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu

As the school grew, Ohr Eliyahu relocated to a former Culver City public school near Kenneth Hahn State Park.