In the summer of 1927, the three-year-old Culver City Speedway was torn down and the land beneath it transformed into a residential neighborhood called Culver City Park. (If you look at a map, you can see how it partly retains the curve of the old racetrack.) Most streets laid out here simply adopted the existing names of nearby streets – including Motor Avenue, which predated the Speedway by years – but there was one newcomer: Le Bourget Avenue. In May 1927, American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and he landed at Le Bourget airport outside of Paris. That was surely the inspiration for this street’s name; I found no other likely namesakes.
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