Culver City Chronicles

Culver City Has Rivaled Hollywood For Nearly A Century As The Heart Of Screenland--a Center Of The Movie And Television Trades. Here, The Giant Metro-goldwyn-mayer Evolved Into Sony Pictures, And The Ince And Selznick Movie Empires Became Today's Culver Studios. But The Same Lands Along Ballona Creek Had Been A Wilderness Traversed By Native Americans And Settled By Hardy Spanish Pioneers Named Machado, Talamantes And Higuera. Union Soldiers Occupied The Area's Civil War-era Camp Latham. By 1910, Visionary Harry H. Culver Saw Possibilities For These Ranchlands And Led Culver City To Incorporate In 1917. Join Official City Historian Julie Lugo Cerra, A Descendant Of Early Settlers, As She Relates The Fascinating Stories Of How And Why Culver City Grew And Prospered.