Inglewood Blvd. terminates two miles from Inglewood city limits, so what gives? This roadway acquired its current moniker sometime in the 1920s. I say “sometime” because a November 1922 newspaper article noted the planning of an “Inglewood to Venice highway” but a classified ad published nine months earlier mentioned the corner of Washington and Inglewood boulevards. And while a 1925 map of the Westside showed this street still going by its previous identity (Burkshire Avenue, part of which still exists by that name), a 1928 map labeled it Inglewood Boulevard. In summary, this street was designed to connect Inglewood to Venice, it quietly became known as Inglewood Boulevard between 1922 and 1926, and the full plan fizzled out along the way. Make sense? For some background on the “Inglewood” name, see Inglewood Avenue.
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