A Photography Project
It is said that Ely Callaway put Temecula on the map as a serious wine producing region. Callaway Vineyard and Winery is the oldest Temecula winery still in operation. He sold the winery in 1981 to start Callaway Golf Company.
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The Shakespeare Bridge in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles is technically the Franklin Avenue Bridge. Designed by J.C. Wright of the LA Bureau of Engineering, it was built in 1926, rebuilt in a 4-year seismic retrofit starting in 1994.
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Much of the coast of what is now Southern California was a tropical reef 17-18 million years ago. The remains of that reef were exposed in Laguna Hills in 1973. Orange County agencies worked together to create Fossil Reef Park in 1982.
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The former Home Savings & Loan Bank (now Chase) at Harbor & Lincoln in Anaheim is generally a massive Modernist block built in 1970. Like some 150 Home Savings banks, it was designed and built by Millard Sheets featuring a huge mosaic.
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The incorporation document for the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association was signed on July 10, 1867. The Town Common Council sold the property “for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar gold coin of the United States.”
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Mike Dolan, assuming operation of the family business, founded Driftwood Dairy, Inc. in El Monte in 1946. The Driftwood Dairy drive-thru, a Googie gem on Lower Azuza Road, was built (and perhaps designed) by Theodore Masterson in 1961.
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Through a cooperative effort between a variety of church denominations, including Methodists, Presbyterians, and others, the Friends Church in Yorba Linda was organized and built as a joint effort of the congregation in 1912.
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