A Photography Project
City of Los Angeles Police Station No. 19 was built in Highland Park in 1925-26. After closing in 1983, it was acquired by the Los Angeles Police Historical Society in 1994, renovated and opened as the Los Angeles Police Museum in 2001.
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Architect William Pereira created the master plan for the UCI Campus at Urbanus Square, formerly the site of the Newport Harbor Buffalo Ranch. One of the barns, a Sears and Roebuck pre-cut building, was moved to the UCI campus in 1971.
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In February 1931, San Diego State Teachers College moved to its newly completed campus consisting of six buildings. The Academic Building, the original campus entrance, was renamed Hepner Hall and is considered the symbol of the campus.
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In September 1912, a four-room frame schoolhouse opened its doors to 62 elementary students in El Segundo. It continued to serve as a school until 1933. It was purchased by the El Segundo Woman’s Club and moved to its present location.
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Completed in November, 1988, the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights serves as the North American regional headquarters for the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order founded in Taiwan. It is one of the largest Buddhist temples in the United States.
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The first Del Taco was originally called Casa Del Taco. The first Del Taco is now called Tita’s Burger Den. But its history goes back to Ed Hackbarth and David Jameson who opened the fast-food restaurant in Yermo in 1964.
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In 1926, the parishioners of St. Isidore in Los Alamitos built their church on land received from the Bixby Land Company. It was rebuilt in three months by church members when severely damaged by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.
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