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The Petersen Automotive Museum was founded in 1994 by automotive publisher Robert E. Petersen. The museum underwent a $125 million renovation in 2015. It has permanent and rotating exhibits, and an extensive historic collection.
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Established by J. Paul Getty in 1954, the Villa was renovated starting in 1997, reopening in 2005. It is “Roman-inspired architecture surrounded by Roman-style gardens” with more than 44,000 Greek, Roman & Etruscan antiquities.
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If you drive north on I5 out of the San Fernando Valley, you can’t miss the Cascades. Completed on Nov 5, 1913, it is the point where the LA Aqueduct symbolically enters the city to bring drinking water to the community.
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In December, 1912, Griffith J. Griffith offered the City of Los Angeles $100,000 for an observatory to be built on the top of Mount Hollywood. Construction finally began in June, 1933, and the Observatory opened to the public on May 14, 1935.
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Since it opened in July 1967, the Anaheim Convention Center has since undergone several cosmetic renovations and seven expansions, the most recent completed in 2017. It is the largest exhibit facility on the West Coast with almost 1.8 Million sq ft of exhibit and meeting space.
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Built in 1874, the Point Fermin Lighthouse was the first navigational light into the San Pedro Bay. The Stick Style Victorian structure is one of only a handful built in the style at that time, only few of which remain standing.
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The Pilgrim, a replica of the ship in “Two Years Before the Mast”, sank in its slip at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point on Sunday, March 29, 2020. It had been scheduled for repairs in January, but the shipyard was overloaded.
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