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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The Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles has two exhibit areas flanked by 160-foot pavilions (West Tower & South Tower). The pavilions and exhibition halls are joined by a link of meeting halls hovering above Pico Blvd.
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The Spanish Colonial Revival style building that serves as the Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena was built in 1930-31 as the main building of the Vista del Arroyo Hotel during the great age of Pasadena resort hotels.
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The Portuguese Chapel in the Point Loma area of San Diego was completed and inaugurated in 1922. The design of the small (12′ x 20′), single-story building was inspired by similar chapels from the Isles of Terceira and Pico in the Azores.
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