A Photography Project
The changeover from Staples Center to Crypto.com Arena coincided with the Lakers-Nets game on Dec 25, 2021. Construction of the arena started in 1997 and it opened on October 17, 1999, with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.
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Rosecroft is an historic estate and gardens in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego. The 2-story, 15,600 sq ft mansion was built in 1912 by regionally prominent architect Emmor Brooke Weaver for Alfred D. and Marion James Robinson.
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The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, completed in 1928 for the development firm of Walter G. McCarty Corp., occupies an entire block on the south side of Wilshire Boulevard at the south end of the Rodeo Drive shopping area in Beverly Hills.
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The National Register nomination of one of the handful of remaining pre-1890 houses in Orange concludes with, “The Parker House, one of the finest historic homes in Orange, is representative of the Boom of the [1880s]…”
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The roots of the Maritime Museum of San Diego date back to 1927 when a group of dedicated ship buffs, led by waterfront reporter Jerry MacMullen, acquired the bark Star of India. The Museum Association was formally founded in 1948.
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The 18.3-acre site of Greystone Mansion and Gardens was purchased by the City of Beverly Hills in 1965 and dedicated as a public park in 1971. Completed in 1928, the mansion contains 55 major rooms consisting of 46,000 square feet.
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Hotel del Coronado owner John Spreckels was asked by the Coronado Library Trustees to build a local, permanent library building. He agreed and had architect Harrison Albright design and build a classical revival library building in 1909.
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