Inglewood Blvd. terminates two miles from Inglewood city limits, so why the name? It happened sometime in the 1920s. I say “sometime” because a November 1922 newspaper article noted the planning of an “Inglewood to Venice highway”, yet a classified ad published nine months earlier already mentioned the corner of Washington and Inglewood boulevards. And while a 1925 map of the Westside showed Inglewood Blvd. still going by its old name, Burkshire Avenue (part of which still exists), a 1928 map labeled it Inglewood Blvd. In summary, Inglewood Boulevard was designed to connect Inglewood to Venice, the name was quietly adopted between 1922 and 1926, and the full plan fizzled out along the way. For some background on the “Inglewood” name, see Inglewood Avenue.
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