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1964 Map of Inglewood

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Inglewood
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

Inglewood and its neighboring South Los Angeles communities appear here during a period of massive urban expansion and transit development. The landscape is defined by a dense grid of thoroughfares including Imperial Highway and Rosecrans Ave, punctuated by significant institutions like Pepperdine College and El Camino College. The 1972 revisions, indicated in purple, reveal the rapid infill of residential and industrial tracts between established areas like Lennox and Hawthorne.

Infrastructure for the jet age and local leisure is prominent, from the Hawthorne Municipal Airport to the large oval of Hollywood Park. Significant local history and genealogy markers are preserved in the sprawling Inglewood Park Cemetery and Lincoln Mem Park (Cem). Industrial activity is centered around the Oil Field near South Los Angeles, while the Dominguez Channel provides a engineered path for drainage through the heart of Gardena and Torrance.