Playa Del Rey Real Estate

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Real Estate in Playa Del Rey is part of the gorgeous beach and beautiful coastline that we enjoy in Southern California. Playa Del Rey homes come in all different shapes styles and sizes. You could have an oceanfront condo all the way up to a huge mansion overlooking the bluffs. Playa Del Rey is Spanish for King's beach or Beach of the King.

Playa Del Rey is close to West Los Angeles along a beautiful beachfront just south of Marina Del Rey, Westchester to the east, and El Segundo to the south. In the seventies Playa del Rey was well known as an awesome beach to surf at. Rock jetties were formed to prevent the beach from eroding so a lot of the good surf is gone. The locals go south of Dockweiler Beach to a place called El Porto, which is the northern most part of beach in Manhattan Beach.

The northern region of Playa Del Rey was once wetlands, but natural flooding has been stopped by a concrete channel which the Ballona Creek flows through. The is a bridge in between Playa Del Rey and the jetty which makes the Marina is accessible to pedestrians. Playa del Rey is a couple miles south of Venice of America which was the mouth of the Los Angeles river at one time. The river's course moved to empty into Los Alamitos Bay. The change left behind a lagoon a couple miles long and a few acres wide. that flows fresh water to the sea. Playa Dey Rey has a longer history than most people think. It was part of a land grant from the Mexican Governor in eighteen thirty-nine to the Machado and Talamantes families. There was a major drought in the eighteen sixties that wiped out a lot of cattle In the eighteen seventies William Tell filed a claim on over a hundred acres of land in what is now Playa Dey Rey and constructed a shop at the edge of the lagoon. The store called Tell's Place was soon a hit with fisherman from Los Angeles. Tell also rented out boats to let people hunt ducks.

Moye Wicks started the Ballona Harbor & Improvement Company in eighteen eighty-six to develop Playa Del Rey into a nice harbor. They planned on a channel that would link the ocean to the inner harbor that would be about five hundred feet wide a couple miles long and twenty feet deep. Union Pacific's monopoly of the southern california railroads was broken when the Santa Fe Railroad built a line from San Diego to West Los Angeles, they extended the tracks to the port. After a major storm in eighteen eighty-nine the project was abandoned.

Sherman and Clark renamed the city Playa del Rey in 1902. Hundreds of home lots were sold for $500-$1500 at auction An electric railway carried tourists from West Los Angeles to Playa Del Rey, a three story pavilion with dining dancing and a bowling alley. The Hotel Del Rey was constructed along with a fishing pier, a boathouse and a racing course. A favorite attraction is the incline railroad that was built on the side of the palisades giving tourists panoramic views of the ocean and lagoon. There was a race track in Playa Del Rey for a couple years near Jefferson and Culver but it burned and wasn't rebuilt. Large parts of the pier fell in nineteen eleven and nineteen seventeen and other facilities for tourists were damaged The massive tide gates which maintained the high water level in the lagoon, were dynamited during a heavy rainstorm because Venice was flooding. The grandstands around the boat course were demolished and the boat course was overrun with sand. The three story pavilion burned before the first world war. Also tragically the Playa Del Rey Hotel, was destroyed by fire in nineteen twenty-four Most of the lagoon was lost when the Army Corp of Engineering channelized Ballona Creek in nineteen thirty-eight and also when the entrance channel to Marina del Rey was constructed.

There has been billions spent on improvements to this little beach side community and every penny had been worth it. Playa Del Rey truly is a great place to call home.