Mar Vista is a residential and commercial neighborhood on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of Venice High School, two private schools, a branch public library and a city park.

According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Mar Vista is adjoined on the northeast by Palms, on the east, southeast and south by Culver City, on the west by Venice and on the northwest by Santa Monica.

Mar Vista’s street and other boundaries are: the San Diego Freeway to the Culver City boundary at Venice Boulevard on the northeast, the Culver City line on the southeast, Walgrove Avenue on the southwest and the Santa Monica city boundary on the northwest. The northern apex of the Mar Vista neighborhood is at the San Diego Freeway and National Boulevard and the southern is at Washington Boulevard and Tivoli Avenue. The Zip Code for Mar Vista California is 90066.

Information above courtesy of Wikipedia.

During the mid 1940’s, the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power was looking for a Westside reservoir site.  At 200 ft. above sea level, the top of Mar Vista Hill was an ideal location.  Grand View Blvd. was still a dirt road across a dump site. DWP bought the truck farms west on Grand View, providing a 15 acre site for a reservoir.

By the 1960’s, with the availability of Colorado River water from the Metropolitan Water District, the reservoir was no longer needed.  Recreation and farming returned to the land on top of Mar Vista Hill, west of Grand View Blvd.  The DWP’s “Venice Reservoir Site, located in Ocean Park Heights” became the home of the North Venice Little
League in 1966, and the home of Ocean View Farms in 1977.

History abstract above is courtesy of the City of Mar Vista.

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