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Around Hawthorne

Hawthorne, beyond the house.

The neighbourhoods, the daily rhythm and the drive to everywhere else — the part of a home search a listing sheet never covers.

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This guide covers

  • Downtown Hawthorne / Civic Center
  • Three Sixty South Bay (Hawthorne Plaza site)
  • Hollyglen
  • Holly Park
  • Ramona Tract
  • Moneta Gardens
  • Bellview-Fairfax Tract
  • West Hawthorne / Beach Boys Landmark area
  • Jack Northrop Field / Airport District

The desk's real neighbourhood file for Hawthorne — not a citywide average.

What is actually here

The desk is building a real map of Hawthorne — outdoors, local flavor, the commute and daily errands — rather than printing a generic list.

Outdoors

  • Eucalyptus ParkPublic park, in town.
  • Hawthorne Memorial ParkPublic park, in town.
  • Ramona ParkPublic park, in town.
  • Bicentennial ParkPublic park, about 1.5 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • 118th ParkPublic park, about 1.6 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Zella Davis ParkPublic park, about 1.8 km from the city centre, straight line.

Wine & Local Flavor

  • MB Wine CoWine shop, about 4.3 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • UncorkedWine shop, about 7.3 km from the city centre, straight line.

Getting Around

  • Hawthorne/LennoxRail station, about 1.7 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Hawthorne Municipal AirportAirport, about 1.8 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Aviation/Imperial StationBus station, about 2.4 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • Aviation/ImperialRail station, about 2.5 km from the city centre, straight line.
  • I 105Freeway through the area — the Century Freeway.
  • CrenshawRail station, about 2.7 km from the city centre, straight line.

Food & Daily Life

  • MidiCi - Wood Fired PizzaRestaurant, in town.
  • CurtidoRestaurant, in town.
  • Chips RestaurantRestaurant, in town.
  • Air Sea Packing & Crating Co.Cafe, in town.
  • Zam Zam MarketSupermarket, in town.
  • Los Robles GrillRestaurant, about 1.6 km from the city centre, straight line.

Places from OpenStreetMap, September 10. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Distances are straight-line from the city centre, not drive times.

The neighbourhoods

Where Hawthorne actually breaks down, in the desk's own words.

Full neighbourhood file →

Downtown Hawthorne / Civic Center

The city's original commercial core along Hawthorne Boulevard grew out of the 80-acre townsite platted by the Hawthorne Improvement Company in January 1906; the city incorporated here as a sixth-class municipality on July 12, 1922, and today's City Hall sits a few blocks from that original grid.

Three Sixty South Bay (Hawthorne Plaza site)

The 35-acre former Hawthorne Plaza mall, built in 1974-77 with Montgomery Ward, The Broadway and JCPenney as anchors, closed in 1999 and sat vacant for two decades before the city won a 2025 court order forcing its owner to demolish it, with demolition beginning in August 2026.

Hollyglen

A western Hawthorne neighborhood zoned into the separate Wiseburn Unified School District rather than Hawthorne School District; Hollyglen Elementary (the former Juan Cabrillo Elementary) opened a rebuilt campus in December 2008 and the neighborhood's Wiseburn Middle School opened its current building in 2007.

Holly Park

Centered on the city park of the same name at 2058 W.

Ramona Tract

A residential tract southwest of North Central Hawthorne, generally sited around Prairie Avenue and 135th Street, that takes its name from the adjoining Ramona Park the city has grouped with Holly Park for capital improvement work.

Moneta Gardens

A roughly one-square-mile district in southeast Hawthorne organized as Moneta Gardens Improvement, Inc.

A day around here

Ordinary life in Hawthorne, the way it actually runs — not a highlight reel.

Morning

Coffee at Air Sea Packing & Crating Co., then whatever the day actually needs.

Afternoon

An hour at Eucalyptus Park, between the errands that never show up on a listing sheet.

Evening

Dinner at MidiCi - Wood Fired Pizza, then a short drive back to whichever neighbourhood you call home.

Illustrative scenes, not photographs of the places named. Places from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Homes near here

Real listings live in Hawthorne right now — not a wish list.

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Active listings, as of September 22. Photos are illustrative — not photographs of the address on the card.

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