A Photography Project
Congregation Beth Israel was established in San Diego in 1861. In 1889, they built their first synagogue, Temple Beth Israel, at Second Avenue and Beech Street. It was moved to Heritage Park in the late 1970s and restored by 1988.
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In 1922, the Fullerton Improvement Company built the Pomona Court, designed by locally prominent architect Frank Benchley, on the model of bungalow courts that had spread throughout Southern California from Pasadena since 1909.
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In 1926, Sydney Woodruff, backed by the Dana Point Syndicate, purchased 1400 acres, which included a previous developerment, improved the roads and tracts laid out by the previous developers and by 1928, houses had started to appear.
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A new building for the Fullerton Library, funded by the WPA, was completed on Christmas Eve of 1941. The library moved to a new location in 1973 and the building was repurposed, changing its name to the Fullerton Museum Center in 1985.
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Originally only half an acre, Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego was proclaimed a national monument in 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson. Today, expanded to about 144 acres, it is under the care of the National Park Service.
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The Aquarium Café was built in 1931 in the North Beach area of San Clemente. Designed by L.C. Smith in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, the restaurant had 4 large aquariums, 2 fresh water, 2 salt water, filled with fish and sea life.
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The Monrovia Historical Museum occupies the 8,000 sq ft building that served as the lobby and locker rooms for the Monrovia Municipal Plunge built in Recreation Park in 1925. The pool closed in 1983, the museum opened in 1992.
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