A Photography Project
The Original Saugus Cafe in Santa Clarita was founded in 1886 as the Saugus Eating House located in the Saugus Train Depot. It is the oldest restaurant in the Santa Clarita Valley and one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles County.
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Santiago Orange Growers Association built and operated the largest packing house in Orange in 1918. Chapman University purchased it in 2004 and has repurposed the building to house the Sandi Simon Center for Dance.
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The brick building identifying its former occupant, Western Cordage Company in white block letters on its street-facing wall, contributes to the Old Towne Orange Historic District as one of several significant industrial structures.
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A plaque on the wall under the Chad’s sign on Cabrillo Blvd in Santa Barbara chronicles that it was “Sambo’s Birthplace – On this location, June 17, 1957, the first of Sambo’s nationwide chain of family restaurants opened its doors.”
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The Carousel House located in Chase Palm Park in Santa Barbara was built in 1997-8 to house an historic 1916 Herschell Three-Abreast Carousel, one of three machines produced by the Allan Herschell Factory in the 1915-1917 time frame.
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The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is housed in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building at Berth 84 in San Pedro. Finished in 1941 as a WPA project, it was one of the pair of terminals for auto ferry service to/from Terminal Island.
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The Marston House sits on a gently sloping portion of five acres overlooking Balboa Park in San Diego. Built in 1905 for George Marston and his wife, it is considered one of California’s finest examples of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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