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5 unusual facts about Pico Boulevard


Andrés Pico

Pico Boulevard, running from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles, is named for his brother Pió Pico, the former governor, but also honors the Pico family.

Chaim Pinto

Rabbi Pinto's followers and descendants have a number of synagogues worldwide, including the Pinto Center synagogue on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, which was founded by Rabbi Yaacov Pinto.

John W. Baumgartner

In that era the 12th District covered roughly the area north of Pico Boulevard and south of Griffith Park, with Hoover Street on the west.

Peirson Mitchell Hall

The 11th District originally encompassed an area south of Downtown, bounded on the north by Sixth Street, on the south by Pico Boulevard, on the west by Hoover Avenue and on the east approximately by San Pedro Street.

Rogue Machine Theatre

They currently run a seven- to eight-month season in the Theatre/Theater building on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.


Palms, Los Angeles

It stretched to Pico Boulevard (abutting Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica) and to what we know as Ince Boulevard, where Rancho Rincón de los Bueyes began.

Santa Monica neighborhoods

Major east/west thoroughfares in Santa Monica are San Vicente Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, Olympic Boulevard, Pico Boulevard, and Ocean Park Boulevard.


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