The area that Hatchet Hall is located IS Culver City. I think I acknowledged that, but only politically. This area is such a narrow strip of Culver City - one block in width, then helter skelter on the south side of Washington. The CC govt usurped/annexed this narrow strip along Washington for reasons I already mentioned.
Some streets south of Washington are Culver City, some are not. Some blocks of streets are CC, some are LA. I know this because I knew a lot of kids in this general neighborhood. I went to LAUSD schools with some of these kids, while others went to CCSD.
The same is true for the neighborhood around Mesmer. I had a friend who lived on Etheldo. His home was in the middle of the block and right on the border of LA/CC. His next door neighbor went to CCSD, while my friend went to LAUSD. Moreover, while the rest of his side of the the street is CC, all the homes across the street are LA. The next street - Emporia - is split as well. The south side is LA, while the north side is CC where my cousin lived and went to CCSD. There are even some blocks by CC high school that are LA. I had a long time classmate who lived less than a block from the CCHS athletic field, but had to go to LAUSD Westside schools - go figure.
To confuse issues even more which bolsters my point, the post office deemed areas 90230 by contiguous geography, whether the areas were LA or CC politically, while deeming other areas 90066 for the same issues - geographic contiguity.
The CC gerrymandering and the post office’s conflicting issues confused City services for both LA and CC, particularly emergency services.
My parents live in LA but has a 90230 zip code. They called the LAPD years ago because they heard shots fired. After giving their address, the dispatcher said my parents needed to contact CCPD - that they are in CC. Despite my parents explaining the zip code issue and insisting that they lived in LA, the dispatcher refused to send a unit.
They then called the CCPD and got the same treatment but because the CC dispatcher was fully aware of the crazy borders of CC. She called the LAPD Pacific division for my parents and things got sorted out. This was a regular issue in all these areas with conflicting city/zip codes until computers were able to sort these issues out.
If this isn’t bad enough, some businesses are partially in both CC and LA. Placement of their cash registers can actually make a difference in their city tax liability.
Geographically, the area that Hatchet Hall located is considered Del Rey, which is even unknown to many residents. So many think this area is part of Mar Vista, which actually begins to the north of Venice Blvd. Whatever the case, this general area is a real cluster&*#! in terms of political jurisdiction and geographic reference.
