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Santa Monica, California From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Santa Monica" redirects here. For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation) .

Santa Monica, California
City
City of Santa Monica
Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue at sunset
Seal
Nickname(s): SaMo[1]
Motto(s): Populus felix in urbe felice   (Latin ) (English : "Happy people in a happy city", or alternatively "Fortunate people in a fortunate land") [2]
Location within Los Angeles County
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Coordinates: 34°01′19″N 118°28′53″W Coordinates : 34°01′19″N 118°28′53″W
Country	United States of America
State	California
County	Los Angeles
Spanish encampment	August 3, 1769
Incorporated	November 30, 1886[3]
Named for	Saint Monica
Government
• Type	Council–manager [4]
• Mayor	Ted Winterer[5]
Area[6]
• Total	8.42 sq mi (21.80 km2)
• Land	8.41 sq mi (21.80 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation[7]	105 ft (32 m)
Population  (2010 )[8]
• Total	89,736
• Estimate (2018)[9]	91,411
• Density	10,989.66/sq mi (4,243.04/km2)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific )
• Summer (DST )	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP codes	90401–90411
Area codes	310/424
FIPS code	06-70000 [10]
GNIS feature IDs	1652792 , 2411825 [11]
Website	www.smgov.net

Santa Monica (Spanish : Santa Mónica ; Spanish  for Saint Monica ) is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California , United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay , it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, West Los Angeles on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736.

Due in part to an agreeable climate, Santa Monica became a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its downtown core, significant job growth and increased tourism. The Santa Monica Pier and Pacific Park remain popular destinations.[12]

Sport See also: Sports in Los Angeles

The men's and women's marathon ran through parts of Santa Monica during the 1984 Summer Olympics .[96] The Santa Monica Track Club has many prominent track athletes, including many Olympic gold medalists. Santa Monica is the home to Southern California Aquatics,[97] which was founded by Olympic swimmer Clay Evans and Bonnie Adair . Santa Monica is also home to the Santa Monica Rugby Club , a semi-professional team that competes in the Pacific Rugby Premiership , the highest-level rugby union club competition in the United States.

During the 2028 Summer Olympics . Santa Monica will host beach volleyball and surfing .[98]

In popular culture

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Film and television End of Route 66

Hundreds of movies have been shot or set in part within the city of Santa Monica.[99] One of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica is Buster Keaton 's Spite Marriage (1929) which shows much of 2nd Street. The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) included several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those along the California Incline , which led to the movie's treasure spot, "The Big W". The Sylvester Stallone film Rocky III (1982) shows Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed training to fight Clubber Lang by running on the Santa Monica Beach , and Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) includes Santa Monica settings. In Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), the theft of Pee-wee's bike occurs on the Third Street Promenade.[100] Henry Jaglom 's indie Someone to Love (1987), the last film in which Orson Welles appeared, takes place in Santa Monica's venerable Mayfair Theatre. Heathers (1989) used Santa Monica's John Adams Middle School for many exterior shots. The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) is set entirely in Santa Monica, particularly the Palisades Park area, and features a radio station that resembles KCRW at Santa Monica College . 17 Again (2009) was shot at Samohi . Other films that show significant exterior shots of Santa Monica include Fletch (1985), Species (1995), Get Shorty (1995), and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Richard Rossi 's biopic Aimee Semple McPherson opens and closes at the beach in Santa Monica. Iron Man features the Santa Monica pier and surrounding communities as Tony Stark tests his experimental flight suit.

The documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) and the related dramatic film Lords of Dogtown (2005) are both about the influential skateboarding culture of Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood in the 1970s.

The Santa Monica Pier is shown in many films, including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Sting (1973), Ruthless People (1986), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Clean Slate (1994), Forrest Gump (1994), The Net (1995), Love Stinks (1999), Cellular (2004), The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006), Iron Man (2008) and Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).

A number of television series have been set in Santa Monica, including Baywatch , Three's Company , Pacific Blue , and Private Practice . The Santa Monica pier is shown in the main theme of CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles . In Buffy the Vampire Slayer , the main exterior set of the town of Sunnydale , including the infamous "sun sign", was in Santa Monica in a lot on Olympic Boulevard .[101]

The films The Doors (1991) and Speed (1994) featured vehicles from Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus line, relative to the eras depicted in the films.

The city of Santa Monica (and in particular the Santa Monica Airport) was featured in Roland Emmerich's disaster film 2012 (2009). A magnitude 10.9 earthquake destroys the airport and the surrounding area as a group of survivors escape in a personal plane. The Santa Monica Pier and the whole city sinks into the Pacific Ocean after the earthquake.

Literature

Raymond Chandler 's most famous character, private detective Philip Marlowe , frequently has a portion of his adventures in a place called "Bay City", which is modeled on depression-era Santa Monica.[102] In Marlowe's world, Bay City is "a wide-open town", where gambling and other crimes thrive due to a massively corrupt and ineffective police force.

The main character from Edgar Rice Burroughs ' The Land That Time Forgot was a shipbuilder from Santa Monica.

In Al Capone Does My Shirts , the Flanagans move to Alcatraz from Santa Monica.

Tennessee Williams lived (while working at MGM Studios) in a hotel on Ocean Avenue in the 1940s. At that location he wrote The Glass Menagerie . His short story titled "The Mattress by the Tomato Patch " was set near Santa Monica Beach and mentions the clock visible in much of the city, high up on The Broadway Building, on Broadway near 2nd Street.

Music

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• Universal Music Group is based in Santa Monica. Several of its labels such as Aftermath Entertainment (started by Dr. Dre ), Interscope (started by Jimmy Iovine ), A&M Records , Geffen Records , Shady Records , and G-Unit Records (created by 50 Cent & Sha Money XL ) are based in Santa Monica, CA.
• The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is based in Santa Monica on Olympic Boulevard .
• The modern rock band Theory of a Deadman 's song titled "Santa Monica ", is a first-person account about a girl leaving her significant other to start a new life in Santa Monica.
• The band Everclear released a song titled "Santa Monica " in 1995, which became their first mainstream hit.
• The band Savage Garden also released a song titled "Santa Monica" off their #3 US album Savage Garden (1997).
• Santa Monica is referenced in the weezer single Hash Pipe .[103]
• John Mayer 's song In Your Atmosphere mentions Wilshire Boulevard .
• The folk Australian duo, Angus and Julia Stone , released a single titled "Santa Monica Dream" in the album "Down the Way".
• The ska/reggae band, Bedouin Soundclash has a song entitled "Santa Monica".
• One of the few songs musical satirist Tom Lehrer has recorded since the 1970s is a tribute to the holidays of the Jewish calendar entitled "I'm Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica".
• Santa Monica is referenced throughout Jack's Mannequin 's debut album Everything In Transit .
• In 1968, British singer-songwriter Noel Harrison released a song and album titled Santa Monica Pier .[104]
• In 1948, bandleader Kay Kyser released a 78 record of the novelty song "When Veronica Plays the Harmonica (Down at the Pier in Santa Monica)".
• Kim Kibum , a member of the popular Korean boy band Super Junior attended Santa Monica High School
• The System Of A Down song "Lost in Hollywood" mentions the city.[105]
• The band Linkin Park is named in homage to Santa Monica's Lincoln Park (now called Christine Emerson Reed Park[106] ).
• Richard Rossi released a song entitled "Santa Monica," celebrating the Santa Monica Pier, on his album "Seasons of My Heart."
• Sheryl Crow 's song All I Wanna Do mentions Santa Monica Boulevard

Video games Santa Monica is featured in the video games Driver (1999), True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (2004), Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004) as a fictional district – Santa Maria Beach, Destroy All Humans! (2004), Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005), L.A. Rush (2005), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2008), Cars Race-O-Rama (2009) as a fictional city – Santa Carburera, Grand Theft Auto V (2013) as a fictional district – Del Perro, Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013) as a fictional U.S. military base – Fort Santa Monica, The Crew (2014) and Need for Speed (2015).

U.S. Route 66 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Main Street of America" redirects here. For other uses, see Main Street, America . "The Mother Road" redirects here. For the route in China, see China National Highway 312 .

U.S. Route 66
Will Rogers Memorial Highway
Route information
Length	2,448 mi (3,940 km)
Existed	November 26, 1926[1] –June 26, 1985[2]
Tourist routes	Historic Route 66
Major intersections (in 1947)[3]
West end	US 101 Alt. in Santa Monica, Cal.
	US 6 / US 99 / US 101 in Los Angeles, Cal. US 91 from San Bernardino to Barstow, Cal. US 93 / US 466 in Kingman, Ariz. US 89 from Ash Fork to Flagstaff, Ariz. US 666 from Sanders, Ariz. to Gallup, N.M. US 60 / US 87 / US 287 in Amarillo, Tex. US-77 in Oklahoma City, Okla. US-166 in Baxter Springs, Ks. US 71 from Joplin to Carthage, Mo. US 40 / US 50 / US 61 in St. Louis, Mo.
East end	US 41 / US 54 in Chicago, Ill.
Location
States	California , Arizona , New Mexico , Texas , Oklahoma , Kansas , Missouri , Illinois
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Special Divided Replaced

U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66 ), also known as the Will Rogers Highway , the Main Street of America or the Mother Road , was one of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System . US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year.[4] The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago , Illinois , through Missouri , Kansas , Oklahoma , Texas , New Mexico , and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California , covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).[5] It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the Route 66 television series , which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. In John Steinbeck 's classic American novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the road, "Highway 66", was turned into a powerful symbol of escape and loss.

US 66 served as a primary route for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and the road supported the economies of the communities through which it passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System .

US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, but was officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985[2] after it had been replaced in its entirety by segments of the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been communally designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66 ", returning the name to some maps.[6] [7] Several states have adopted significant bypassed sections of the former US 66 into their state road networks as State Route 66 . The corridor is also being redeveloped into U.S. Bicycle Route 66 , a part of the United States Bicycle Route System that was developed in the 2010s.

Route 66 (song) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the Nelson Riddle song, see Route 66 (TV series) § Theme song .

"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"
Sheet music cover featuring the King Cole Trio
Single by the King Cole Trio
B-side	"Everyone Is Sayin' Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye)"
Released	1946
Format	Ten-inch 78  rpm record
Genre	Rhythm and blues
Length	2 :57
Label	Capitol (256)
Songwriter(s)	Bobby Troup

"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 " is a popular rhythm and blues standard , composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup . The song uses a twelve-bar blues arrangement and the lyrics follow the path of U.S. Route 66 (US 66), which traversed the western two-thirds of the U.S. from Chicago , Illinois, to Los Angeles , California.

Nat King Cole , with the King Cole Trio, first recorded the song the same year and it became a hit, appearing on Billboard magazine's R&B and pop charts.[1]

Another version to reach the Billboard charts was that recorded by Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters on May 11, 1946[2] and this reached the No. 14 position in 1946.[3] The song was subsequently recorded by many artists including Chuck Berry , Glenn Frey , the Rolling Stones , Them , Dr. Feelgood , Asleep at the Wheel , the Manhattan Transfer , Depeche Mode , The Brian Setzer Orchestra , Pappo , The Cramps , John Mayer ,[4] , George Benson and Peter Tork & Shoe Suede Blues.

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