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Ballona Creek and the Culver City Centenial

As the year-long CC100 celebration cc-centenial-logobegins this month, BCR also celebrates the creek’s historic role in the region as well as Culver City. Prior to the city’s incorporation in 1917, the creek provided sustenance for the

cc-centenial-photo1Tongva/Gabrielino Native Americans, rancheros from Mexico and Spain, forty-niners, farmers, realtors, and—yes—filmmakers!

In or along Ballona Creek or its adjacent land, early silent films featuring canoing “Hollywood Indians” (a scene depicted below at the La Cienega Expo station) and Ben Hur chariot racers, the classic “All Quiet on the Western Front” (at left), “The Andy Griffith Show” and more.

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