Jefferson Boulevard
{{Short description|Street in Los Angeles and Culver City, California}}
{{about|the street in Los Angeles|the highway in West Sacramento, California|California State Route 84}}
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| {{LACMTA icon|E}} La Cienega/Jefferson
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| direction_a = West
| terminus_a = Sepulveda Blvd. in Playa Del Rey
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| direction_b = East
| terminus_b = Central Avenue in Los Angeles
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File:11-11-06-GalenCenter.jpg at Jefferson Blvd. and Figueroa St.]]
Jefferson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles and Culver City, California. Its eastern terminus is at Central Avenue east of Exposition Park. At its entrance to Culver City, it splits with National Boulevard. North of Sawtelle Boulevard, it merges with Sepulveda Boulevard. Jefferson returns before Slauson Avenue and ends at Culver Boulevard; its western terminus is near Playa Del Rey.
Education and transportation
University of Southern California (USC) is located on Jefferson Boulevard from Figueroa Street to Vermont Avenue. Its sports center complex, the Galen Center, is located at the southeast corner of Jefferson and Figueroa.
Bus service is operated through Jefferson Boulevard between Playa Vista and West L.A. Transit Center by Culver City Transit line 4, between West LA Transit Center and USC by Metro Local line 38, and east of USC by Metro Local line 102. The Metro E Line serves two light rail stations at Jefferson: one at Flower Street near USC and the other on La Cienega Boulevard.[http://www.metro.net/projects/exposition/ Exposition Transit Corridor, Phase 1 to Culver City] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504115514/http://www.metro.net/projects/exposition/ |date=2012-05-04 }}, Metro.net, May 2, 2011
Little New Orleans
Los Angeles saw an influx of Creoles of color to the area in the mid-1900s, to the point that by the 1950s a portion of Jefferson Boulevard and Jefferson Park (a neighborhood that ran partially along Jefferson Boulevard) was unofficially dubbed "Little New Orleans".{{cite book|last=Carpenter|first=Jane|title=Conjure women: Betye Saar and rituals of transformation, 1960-1990|year=2002|publisher=University of Michigan|page=22|isbn=9780493733845|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tr0fAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Little+new+orleans%22}} The population was predominantly Creole and held many Creole-owned businesses such as the Big Loaf Bakery, which was considered to be the "only place in Los Angeles that made New Orleans style Baguettes".{{cite book|last=Campanella|first=Richard|title=Geographies of New Orleans|year=2006|publisher=University of Louisiana at Lafayette|isbn=1887366687|page=215|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m9kDAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Little+new+orleans%22+Los+Angeles}}{{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Ginger|title=Spicy Parties : Set Tone for : Creoles' Life in Southland|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-05-me-2459-story.html|access-date=7 September 2013|newspaper=LA Times|date=February 5, 1989}}