A Photography Project
Heisler Park in Laguna Beach was named after Howard G. Heisler, a member of the Laguna Company that bought the property from the Irvine Company in 1905. The park stretches along the bluffs on Cliff Drive from Aster Street to Diver’s Cove.
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SoFi Stadium in Inglewood consists of the stadium itself, a pedestrian plaza and the 6,000-seat Youtube Theater. Opened in Sep. 2020, the fixed-roof, 70,240-seat indoor-outdoor stadium is home to the NFL’s LA Rams and LA Chargers.
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The Anaheim Colony Historic District covers about 1,200 acres bound by North, South, East and West Streets. This was the land purchased for the Los Angeles Vineyard Society to cultivate grapes – the original German colony founded in 1857.
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The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch has its roots in Luther Gage’s field, next to Frank Frazee’s small vegetable farm, in Oceanside. In 1965 Frazee’s son, Edwin, moved his ranunculus and gladiolus growing operations to the current site.
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Descanso Gardens is a 150-acre botanical garden in La Cañada-Flintridge on land purchased in 1937 by Elias Manchester Boddy. It is operated by the Descanso Gardens Guild in a public-private partnership with Los Angeles County.
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The former Home Savings & Loan Bank (now Chase) at Beach & La Palma in Buena Park is generally a massive Modernist block built in 1978. Like some 150 Home Savings banks, it was designed and built by Millard Sheets featuring a huge mosaic.
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The Museum of Making Music in the headquarters building of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) recently reopened after a two-month-long renovation. Founded in 1998, the museum opened to the public in March, 2000.
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