Centinela Avenue

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Centinela Avenue is an important street in Los Angeles. It generally runs north/south, but also east/west, and is the prime thoroughfare for West Los Angeles, Mar Vista, and Culver City. Centinela Avenue is also a major road in Santa Monica, Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, and Inglewood.

Centinela Avenue is not a continuous street - it is divided into two parts. The first Centinela Avenue begins in off the Brentwood Country Club in Santa Monica. It proceeds south as a minor two lane road, ending at the Santa Monica Airport. It is the official dividing line between Santa Monica and West Los Angeles.

The second Centinela Avenue is a long running four lane major thoroughfare. It starts off as Bundy Drive at Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood. Bundy Drive is a congested north/south four lane thoroughfare that passes through the heart of West Los Angeles and is infamous for being the street where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered on June 12, 1994. South of the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) in West Los Angeles near the Santa Monica Airport, Bundy Drive turns into the next Centinela Avenue, a few feet east of where the previous one ended.

At its intersection with Jefferson Boulevard, Centinela Avenue branches out to become an east/west street. It runs parallel to the south of Slauson Avenue. Centinela Avenue ends on Florence Avenue in Inglewood, where Centinela Park and Centinela Regional Medical Center are located.