I am just looking for some insight. I recently moved to the Palms area and notice that it seems to be a morass of graffitti along the freeway exits along 405. It seems unique to the area of the 405 from Culver north to National.
I travel the 405 daily and notice that north of National to the valley is clean and well maintained. South of Culver isn't great but better than the stretch between Culver and National. The National exit is littered and disgusting. (My guess it's the workers doing this). Just seems that this area that stretches east-west from La Cienega to Lincoln and north-south from National to Jefferson is just a wasteland of old deteriorated businesses, bars and restaurants. Doesn't seem like any redevelopment is in the works. Venice blvd seems like a breeding ground for day workers, yard sales selling nothing but junk, old campers and trucks riddled with graffiti
and just generally depressing. I travel quite a bit so maybe this is why I feel this way because it seems like nobody else speaks about it because it is normal to them. Other cities like San Francisco, Seattle, etc have these really great neighborhood some with multicultural markets, restaurants, bakeries, etc. It seems we only have the 2 dominant cultures here. Venice blvd and that whole Mar Vista area seems to be primarily hispanic and the neighborhoods north of Pico seem to be primarily caucausian. Can someone tell me what went wrong with this area? I may write a book on it. Don't understand the attraction here except that's it's a good central location to get to other parts of the city. Unfortunately, it's the other parts that I like. Can't even find a neighborhood bar that isn't some loud obnoxious place with rude people. The exception is Culver/Washington area of Culver City, but then you have this over the top trendy Beverly Hills wannabees with lousy restaurants, wine bars (wine bars???) and high prices.
What is up here?
I travel the 405 daily and notice that north of National to the valley is clean and well maintained. South of Culver isn't great but better than the stretch between Culver and National. The National exit is littered and disgusting. (My guess it's the workers doing this). Just seems that this area that stretches east-west from La Cienega to Lincoln and north-south from National to Jefferson is just a wasteland of old deteriorated businesses, bars and restaurants. Doesn't seem like any redevelopment is in the works. Venice blvd seems like a breeding ground for day workers, yard sales selling nothing but junk, old campers and trucks riddled with graffiti
and just generally depressing. I travel quite a bit so maybe this is why I feel this way because it seems like nobody else speaks about it because it is normal to them. Other cities like San Francisco, Seattle, etc have these really great neighborhood some with multicultural markets, restaurants, bakeries, etc. It seems we only have the 2 dominant cultures here. Venice blvd and that whole Mar Vista area seems to be primarily hispanic and the neighborhoods north of Pico seem to be primarily caucausian. Can someone tell me what went wrong with this area? I may write a book on it. Don't understand the attraction here except that's it's a good central location to get to other parts of the city. Unfortunately, it's the other parts that I like. Can't even find a neighborhood bar that isn't some loud obnoxious place with rude people. The exception is Culver/Washington area of Culver City, but then you have this over the top trendy Beverly Hills wannabees with lousy restaurants, wine bars (wine bars???) and high prices.
What is up here?
