You may have noticed: there’s no country club here. But in 1904, when this street was named, the Los Angeles Country Club was indeed due south at Pico and Western. It was already the club’s third location. The first, a nine hole golf course at Pico and Alvarado, opened in December 1897 when the fledgling organization was simply called the Los Angeles Golf Club. Less than a year later, it was incorporated as the Los Angeles Country Club and a new nine hole course was opened near Hobart and Washington. After another short year, the LACC was moved half a mile northwest to Pico and Western. With plenty of space on what was then the edge of town, the course finally expanded to eighteen holes. The LACC remained here for a dozen years but in 1911 it settled into its fourth – and current – location, straddling Wilshire Boulevard between Beverly Hills and Century City. Country Club Drive kept growing, despite having no country club to go to, until it reached present-day Century Park East. What happened to all that road? Most of it was renamed Olympic Boulevard.
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