Identifier	lmu_ajcu_0006
Title	Manchester Boulevard, 1928
Creator	Unknown
Date Created	1928
Subject (Topic)	College campuses--California--Los Angeles; Dirt roads; Meadows
Subject (Name)	Loyola University of Los Angeles
Subject (Place)	Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.); Manchester Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Type	Image
Form/Genre	Photographs
Physical Description	1 photograph: black and white
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Copyright Holder	Loyola Marymount University
Collection Identifier	Loyola Marymount University Archives
Item/Call Number	Photographic prints 10F01
Description	A view looking down Manchester Boulevard, with grassy fields on either side of the road.
Historical Background	Westchester is an area of west Los Angeles, bordered by Playa del Rey on the west, Inglewood on the east, El Segundo on the south, and Jefferson and Centinela Boulevards on the north. At the start of the twentieth century, Westchester was primarily an agricultural area, but in 1928, the Los Angeles City Council selected Westchester as the site of a new airport which later became known as the Los Angeles International Airport, or LAX. In 1929, Harry Culver offered 100 acres of land to build a new campus for Loyola University, with the condition that the university erect two permanent buildings within a year. As late as 1930, Manchester Blvd. was only a muddy road leading to Loyola University of Los Angeles, but in the late 1930s, real estate developer Fritz Burns developed a tract of inexpensive, prefabricated single-family homes at the intersection of Manchester and Sepulveda Boulevards.
Additional Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Project note	AJCU