The Skinny House in the Rose Park neighborhood of Long Beach is a narrow, three-story house, built in 1932, that has been cited by both the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not as the nation’s skinniest house.
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The Stuft Shirt restaurant franchise commissioned Thornton Ladd, who had recently partnered with John Kelsey, in 1960 to design a new Stuft Shirt restaurant located on the Lido Channel of Newport Harbor in the Mariner’s Mile area.
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Designed by Kenneth A. MacDonald, Jr. and sculptor Federico Augustino Giorgi, the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in Burbank, was originally built as the entrance to Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in 1924.
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Yard class wooden-hulled minesweeper YMS-228 was constructed in 1943 by the Ballard Marine Railway Company in Seattle, WA. She was renamed Wild Goose II in the late 1950s from which John Wayne dropped the II when he bought her in 1962.
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The Fluor company relocated several times before building new headquarters in Irvine composed of 2 main buildings: high-rise Corporate Offices and lower-rise offices for Fluor Engineers and Constructors, Southern California Division.
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The Griffith Park Zoo that opened in 1912 was constructed with a next-to-nothing budget from the L.A. City Council and was about as basic as it gets. It was populated with animals from abandoned menageries and the shuttered Eastlake Zoo.
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The Goleta Depot, built in 1901, was one of about a dozen depots built by Southern Pacific Railroad in Santa Barbara County at the time of the completion of SP’s Coast Line connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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