Surfwood

Surfwood is an abandoned suburb located north of Aviation.

History
Most of Surfwood was built between 1930 and 1950. In the late 50s and early 60s th growth slowed down drastically due to the noisy airport. The growing number of flights to SAX led to noise over Surfwood as the old runway was facing right at Surfwood but residents of Surfwood learned to “co-exist” with the planes but in the 60s and 70s jet planes were impossible to ignore and in a series of eminent domain the county bought the land and left only some buildings and the area was abandoned. Surfwood was served by ALTA’s Northern San Angeles Railroad but the railroad went bankrupt in 1974 but already Surfwood station had closed two years prior to the bankruptcy and was in disrepair. All stations but Surfwood were maintained although no service went to them. In the original plans to the Blue Line it was supposed to go to Surfwood as the old runway was removed and replaced by the two parallel runways we know today and redevelopment of Surfwood was planned but these plans were scrapped two months into planning and the line terminus would be Surfdale instead. Surfwood Station was not included in the new Surfdale/SAX line plans. Currently the Blue Line terminates at North Kensington and the Surfdale/SAX line terminates at Surfdale.