A Photography Project
John Harford built the Harford Pier in 1873 on the western side of San Luis Obispo Bay about 1 1/2 miles from the town of Avila Beach. The 1320-foot pier is a working pier with a seafood company on it and a boat launch adjacent to it.
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The Great Oak is located on the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indian Reservation. It is estimated to be up to 2000 years old. To the Pechanga people, the land and Great Oak that stands upon it carry meaning that transcends physical presence.
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On March 2, 1931, Paul Helms opened the Helms Bakery on the border of Los Angeles and Culver City with 32 employees and 11 delivery coaches. The Art Deco building facing Venice Blvd fronted an 11-acre factory that operated until 1969.
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The Tamale is the last of several programmatic structures surviving on Whittier Blvd in East Los Angeles and, with the demolition of the Chili Bowl in Santa Monica, one of a dwindling number in the greater Los Angeles area.
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For weekend and summer visitors to Balboa Island in the 1920s and 30s, getting to church on Balboa Peninsula could be problematic. So the small, 28-pew Saint John Vianney Chapel was built on a small plot of land on Marine Avenue in 1941.
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Rae’s Restaurant on Pico Blvd. has been a Santa Monica staple since it first opened up in 1958. It has had its ups and downs with the times, but it endures despite its seemingly out-of-date cash-only policy and no presence on the web.
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Beldon Fields, a Disney Imagineer, purchased land in Temecula in the 1970s and built a stately, intricately detailed storybook replica of Snow White’s cottage for his wife, Sallee Ann, preserved now as the Briar Rose Winery.
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