Slauson Avenue

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Slauson Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare for southern Los Angeles County. It passes through Culver City, Ladera Heights, View Park-Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills, Inglewood, South Los Angeles, Huntington Park, Maywood, Pico Rivera, Whittier, and Santa Fe Springs. It starts off Jefferson Boulevard near the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City and ends at Santa Fe Springs Road, where it becomes Mulberry Drive. Slauson runs nearly identical to the south of Washington Boulevard, but begins further east.

The LACMTA Blue Line Slauson Station stops at Slauson, elevated above ground.

The Eastern end of the 90 freeway is on Slauson Avenue. The 90, also known as the Marina Freeway, was briefly known in the 1970's as the Richard M. Nixon freeway. It is one of the shortest freeways in the United States.

Due to the neighborhoods it passes, Slauson was considered synonymous with South Central and African-American culture, but this has changed since the 1990s as Latinos move into South Los Angeles.

Slauson is also famous for former Bethlehem Steel mill located on the 3300 block. At one time Slauson Avenue was a center for urban heavy industry in Los Angeles.

Possibly of interest, Johnny Carson had a character "Art Fern" http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/eccentric/artfern.htm who referred to "The Slauson Cutoff" while giving freeway directions, and added the aside, "Cut off your Slauson...".