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On Dec 6, 2024, San Diego city dignitaries, staff and members of the local community gathered in Balboa Park to announce the reopening of the Botanical Building after a $26.5M renovation project that restored it to its original 1915 state.
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By the beginning of 1973, the Church of the Nazarene (Iglesia del Nazareno) had moved into the church built by the Placentia Presbyterian Church in 1912 on land provided by city founder Albert Sumner Bradford to “anyone who would build a church.”
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Charles Rudolph “Rudy” Boysen was Anaheim Superintendent of Parks from 1921 to 1950. In about 1932, Boysen, an avid horticulturist and “cactus enthusiasts,” started construction of a cactus garden in Anaheim’s City Park (now Pearson Park).
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Hollywood Congregational Church is an historic former church facing on Hollywood Blvd. The church was organized on September 14, 1914, and its first home on Hollywood Boulevard was dedicated in October 1920, after a 3-year effort.
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The Tustin Presbyterian Church was organized in 1882. The congregation’s 2nd and current church building replaced a Victorian chapel that had been built in 1884 at Main and C Streets on property donated by David and Mathilde Hewes.
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Built in 1930 in Hollywood, the Pantages Theatre, according to LA Conservancy, can hold claim to two “lasts”: the last movie palace built in Hollywood and the last venue built by vaudeville circuit owner, Alexander Pantages.
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Built in 1959, Conrad’s Family Restaurant in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, renamed Astro Family Restaurant in 1974, was designed by the renowned architectural firm of Armet & Davis. In 1974, Conrad’s was taken over by Peter Metsos and renamed Astro Family Restaurant.
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