CA--Culver City
Culver City, California
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios were established in the city in the 1920s, establishing it as a center of film and television production. Hughes Aircraft Company's headquarters were there from 1932 to 1986. In the city are the headquarters of National Public Radio West Culver and Sony Pictures Entertainment. It was named after its founder, Harry Culver. Most of it is surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but Ladera Heights is an unincorporated area. Annexed over the years, it now covers five square miles (13km2) of land.
History
Downtown Culver City, 1920
Early history
Culver City's area has been inhabited since 8000 BC, when it was the homeland of the Tongva-Gabrielino Native Americans. The areas surrounding and adjacent to Culver City were once inhabited by native people for centuries. Spanish, Mexican, and Euro-American invasions wiped out the Native Americans of California with slavery, disease, relocation, forced labor, imprisonment, broken treaties, and a genocidal war of extermination. As a result of land concessions and grants from Spanish and Mexican governments, the Ranchos of California were formed between 1785 and 1846. On the lands of