It’s not just a random reference to Beverly Hills, three miles away. This 1927 cul-de-sac is a holdover from the time when the westernmost 12-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard was officially part of Beverly Boulevard. Do not picture an uninterrupted thoroughfare from downtown to the ocean: there was a clumsy one-mile gap between “this” part of Beverly Blvd., which started at the intersection of Sunset and Benedict Canyon, and the rest of it, which terminated at Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills (and still does). Senseless as that gap was, it wasn’t until 1934 when L.A. City Council finally agreed to change that 12-mile stretch’s name to Sunset – the obvious continuation of the road.
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