Slauson Avenue

Slauson Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare for southern Los Angeles County, California, named for the land developer and Los Angeles Board of Education member J. S. Slauson. It passes through Culver City, Ladera Heights, View Park-Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills, Inglewood, South Los Angeles, Huntington Park, Maywood, Commerce, Montebello, Pico Rivera, Whittier, and Santa Fe Springs. It starts off Jefferson Boulevard near the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City and ends at Santa Fe Springs Road, where it becomes Mulberry Drive. Slauson runs nearly identical to the south of Washington Boulevard, but begins further east.

The Slauson Station for the Metro Blue Line stops at Slauson, elevated above ground.

The eastern terminus of the State Route 90, the Marina Freeway, is at Slauson Avenue. The freeway was renamed the Richard M. Nixon Freeway for a brief period in the early 1970s, but after Nixon's resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal, its name was changed to the current appellation.

Slauson is also famous for former Bethlehem Steel mill located on the 3300 block. At one time Slauson Avenue was a center for urban heavy industry in Los Angeles.

Slauson Avenue also played a role in the Art Fern "Tea Time Movie" sketches on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Fern would refer to "The Slauson Cutoff" while he gave road directions during a fictional commercial, and would aside with "Cut off your Slauson..." The street lies between Telegraph Road and Washington Boulevard.

Metro Local lines 108 and 358 operate on Slauson Avenue. Line 358 is proposed to be replaced by Metro Rapid line 758.

See also

• Lester R. Rice-Wray, Los Angeles City Council member recalled from office because of his stand on a mid-20th Century Slauson storm-drain proposal

External links

• The Art Fern Page