Los Alamitos Race Course is a horse racing track in Cypress (not Los Alamitos – a bit of a story itself). What started out as informal match races on the Vessels Ranch in 1947 has grown into year-round Quarter Horse racing in California.
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The Naples neighborhood of Long Beach is built on three islands divided by canals which open into Alamitos Bay. Home today to multimillion-dollar houses, Naples started as the vision of developer Arthur M. Parsons in 1903.
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Father Fermin Lasuén founded Mission San Miguel Arcángel on July 25, 1797. The adobe church, completed in 1818, suffered structural damage from the M6.5 San Simeon earthquake on Dec 22, 2003. Renovated, it reopened in October 2009.
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The Goleta Depot, built in 1901, was one of about a dozen depots built by Southern Pacific Railroad in Santa Barbara County at the time of the completion of SP’s Coast Line connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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The remnants of a New Deal-era sewage treatment plant in Laguna Beach, a ground level digester tower and a small “lighthouse” up on the hillside that covered the digester air vent, will be renovated as part of a city improvement project.
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The Kensington area, San Diego’s best-known Spanish Colonial neighborhood, was originally part of Rancho de la Mission San Diego Alcala. A parcel of the Rancho became the property of the Kensington Park Land Company on April 8, 1910.
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A 2018 restoration project led by Edward Ahdoot of Rockwell Properties uncovered a mosaic mural created by Susan Hertel of Millard Sheets Studio for the Homes Savings Center (now International City Bank) on Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach.
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