The Our Lady of La Vang Shrine on the Christ Cathedral (formerly Crystal Cathedral) campus in Garden Grove was blessed on July 17, 2021. The shrine’s centerpiece is a 12-foot tall Virgin Mary statue sculpted by Andrea Ceccarelli.
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The Lauretta Wasserstein Earthquake Sculpture Garden is on the CSU Northridge campus. Artist Marjorie Berkson Sievers and landscape architect Paul Lewis wove native grasses & other plants into pieces of Parking Structure C that imploded.
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The Pickwick Bowl, a 24 lane bowling alley in Burbank, opened in 1961. It is just part of the recreation
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The Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach features the Crystal Pier Hotel, a collection of cottages added to the pier in the 1930s. Once known as Pickering’s Pleasure Pier, it has been a popular vacation destination since completed in 1927.
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When the City of Orange sought to build a new City Hall on the church’s property at Chapman and Grand, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Orange moved to its current location on Walnut Avenue in 1960.
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Most of the gold ever recovered in Los Angeles County came from mines in Soledad Canyon. They are generally abandoned and sealed. A gold placer mine in Bear Canyon, a Soledad Canyon offshoot, is one of the smaller, but more accessible.
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Attracted to the idea of designing something simple that could be built on a budget, Lloyd Wright designed the Mat House in 1939. It took four years for Bill and Bea Adams to build their two-bedroom home on a half-acre in Reseda.
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