Westwood, Los Angeles, CA
The busy Westwood neighborhood encompasses the sprawling UCLA campus and the Westwood Village, a walkable historic commercial district with student-friendly restaurants and shops. The Village’s cultural attractions include the innovative Hammer Museum, the acclaimed Geffen Playhouse and Fox Theater, a landmark movie palace that regularly hosts splashy premieres. Nearby Holmby Hills is a posh residential district.
Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood located in the northern central portion of Los Angeles' Westside district. It is where the University of California, Los Angeles is located (UCLA). Westwood Village, a major regional shopping, dining, movie theater, and other entertainment center, borders the campus to the south. It was the most prominent such district on the Westside from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Sub-neighborhoods
Westwood Village street scene in 2005
Westwood Village ice skating in the 1930s
Westwood Village is immediately south of the UCLA campus, bounded by LeConte, Gayley, Thornton (between Lindbrook and Wilshire: Glendon) and Wilshire Boulevard.
Westwood Village north of Wilshire is an on-street shopping, dining and entertainment district that was planned in the 1920s - the second such district ever to be built in the nation's history. It was planned by Janss and businesses started to open in 1929. It was the Westside's busiest such district through the 1980s, after which is has been experiencing a period of decline, though it remains popular with local residents and with students, faculty, and staff at UCLA.
A portion of Holmby Hills, home to the Playboy Mansion, south of Sunset Blvd., east of both Beverly Glen Bl. and Comstock Av., and west of the L.A. Country Club, is within Westwood. The northern section of Holmby Hills is part of Bel Air. Together, Holmby Hills, Bel Air and Beverly Hills form the "Platinum Triangle" of Los Angeles.
North Westwood Village (or North Village) consists mainly of multifamily residential units where many UCLA students live, west of Gayley, north of Weyburn, and east of Veteran aves.
signs in Farsi (Persian language) in Tehrangeles
Tehrangeles, also known as "Little Persia", refers to the large number of Persian restaurants, grocery stores, book stores, art galleries, travel agencies, and rug stores along Westwood Boulevard that has served as a cultural hub for the Persian community in Los Angeles since the 1960s.