SoCal Landmarks

SoCal Landmarks

A Photography Project

Local landmark

Crystal Pier, Pacific Beach, San Diego County

Crystal Pier

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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Bear Canyon Mine, Soledad Canyon, Los Angeles County

Bear Canyon Mine

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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Samy's Camera, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

Samy’s Camera

Samy’s Camera has occupied this classic Art Deco office building on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles since 2002. It was designed by Austin & Ashley, a short-lived team that nonetheless made their mark as designers of Griffith Observatory.

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