[img]1694|right|Steve Rose||no_popup[/img]All was quiet on the westerly Washington Place this afternoon, almost 24 hours after Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells suggested that the street’s name be switched to Louis Armstrong in memory of the musician who played a few gigs in Culver City and lived on Wade Street, Culver West.
Numerous businesses, mostly smallish, line the mile and a half that Washington Place stretches.
So far none has brought any complaints to CEO Steve Rose and the Chamber of Commerce. “I haven’t heard any outcry either way,” Mr. Rose said.
“I am sure that if the city does the appropriate notice of all property owners and businesses on Washington Place, it might be a different story.”
Mr. Rose mentioned a potential complication, a technical one.
“Washington Place, from Sepulveda east to Washington Boulevard, is designated the Avenue of the Flags,” he said.
Mr. Rose, an almost native, put the kibosh on the notion of changing Washington Place’s name because of confusion with its big nearby brother, Washington Boulevard. “I never have heard of people complaining about mixing up Washington Boulevard and Washington Place,” he said.
If the machinery ever were oiled up to can Place and replace it with Satchmo Street, it could take longer than the Thirty Years War.
“Before it can happen,” said Mr. Rose, “you would have to check it out with L.A. City, L.A. County because I think the Recorder’s Office has something over it, the Mar Vista Town Council and the Delray Council. We will see.”
