Movies in Culver City

After last week’s article on the redesign of downtown Culver City (Public Places, April 2), which stated that there are no active movie theaters in the city, we received several messages much like this one:

Funny, I would have sworn that I was sitting in the Culver City Mann Theatre just last Thursday. You might want to check, but I think it is still there this week! (On Washington, a little west of the old Culver Theater). . . . TERRY KREMIN

Indeed, the Mann Culver Plaza multiplex is on Washington Boulevard at Hughes, seemingly in the heart of Culver City’s downtown. But looks are deceiving. Actually, say local officials, the Mann screens fall just outside the rather tortured limits of Culver City. Same with the Ivy Substation, the landmark relic of the old Venice Boulevard streetcar line that Culver City has made a feature of its redevelopment plan.

As explained in this e-mail to Next L.A. from Julie Lugo Cerra, author of “Culver City, the Heart of Screenland”:

“The boundaries of Culver City are highly irregular due to a series of annexations which brought the city from Harry Culver’s original 1.2 square miles to nearly five square miles. Not only does its shape resemble an anteater, but there are parts with Culver City mailing [addresses] which are actually in Los Angeles--Mann Theatres, for example.

East of Sawtelle Boulevard there are ‘Los Angeles 90066’ mailing addresses which are actually in Culver City’s jurisdiction. Even Congressman Julian Dixon has been unable to convince the post office to straighten out this bit of confusion. And we still need a theater . . . “

Readers did rightly catch an incorrect photo caption that ran with the article. The picture showed old-fashioned street lights lining Culver Boulevard, not Jefferson.

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