Playa del Ray, California
| Playa del Rey | |
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| Neighborhood of Los Angeles | |
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| Coordinates: 33°57′32″N 118°26′54″W / 33.958926°N 118.448436°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| City | Los Angeles |
Playa del Rey (Spanish for "Beach of the King" or "King's beach") is a beachside community in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California. It has a ZIP code of 90293 and area codes of 310 and 424. As of 2014, the Playa del Rey (zip 90293) population was 12,129 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 14.61 percent.
Playa del Rey is a coastal neighborhood and a district of City of Los Angeles. The rolling hills are the result of ancient, wind-blown, compacted sand dunes which rise up to 125 feet (38 m) above sea level, originally called and often referred to as The Del Rey Hills or "The Bluffs". These dunes run parallel to the coastline, from Playa del Rey, all the way south to Palos Verdes.
The community is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Marina del Rey and Ballona Creek to the north, Ballona Wetlands and Playa Vista to the northeast, Westchester to the east, Los Angeles International Airport and El Segundo to the south.
In his 1963 novel "Inside Daisy Clover," which is set in the 1950s, Gavin Lambert's titular character writes, "The only way I can describe Playa del Rey is that it's a lot of people sitting it out in a cockeyed dump between two other cockeyed dumps called Hermosa Beach and Venice. The beach has oil derricks on it, and there's a huge sewage-disposal plant within sniffing distance." Later, her sister tells her that "even the wrong end of Santa Monica is better than Playa del Rey, which has no right end."
The northern part was originally wetlands, but the natural flooding was halted by the concrete channel which contains Ballona Creek.
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