Saltair is likely just a compound of “salt air”, a reference to the sea breeze, although Saltair Avenue is three miles inland. Born on the Westgate development, Saltair was named in 1905, when there was already a more site-appropriate Saltair Avenue in Venice. (That one’s now called Topsail Street.) This newer Saltair might have been inspired by the Saltair resort on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, a popular destination at the time, or else someone simply copied the name from Venice. South of Wilshire, this road was originally called Wabash Street. It took in the Saltair in 1926.
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