[2] The development of what is now Culver Boulevard was a project of the Automobile Club of Southern California, which was lobbying for roadways for private vehicles at a time when railways or even horses-and-carriages were the primary means of transportation around Los Angeles.

"[3] The plan was for a "seven-mile straightaway" from Ivy Station (described as just beyond the junction of Adams and Washington streets) to the beach resort village of Playa Del Rey.

The road to Playa Del Rey is rapidly nearing completion and a heavy layer of macadam is being placed on the approach to the seashore that passes over the sand.Elsewhere in the paper that day, the plan for what would become Culver Boulevard was succinctly summarized: "The plan is to leave Ivy Station, just this side of Palms, and parallel the Los Angeles-Pacific's electric road's line to Playa Del Rey."

Apparently this route's advantages included that the "friendly" railway was offering their rights-of-way and that its "gravel pits, cars and tracks" would help the Auto Club with the "big fill across the marsh from Alla station to the beach.

[10] Sometime in late August or early September, "graders at work on the automobile road found the remains of two persons.

[16] Putman Avenue is still labeled on the 1928 Pacific Electric route map, but in small print, whereas Culver Boulevard is marked in bright green capital letters.

"[20] Culver Boulevard made occasional brief appearances in Laurel & Hardy and Our Gang shorts produced by the nearby studios.