The Pilgrim, Dana Point’s iconic tall ship, sank in its slip at the Ocean Institute March 29, 2020. The US Coast Guard halted the inspection operation when crews heard loud cracking. The demolition and removal process started on April 7.
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The White House Event Center, a one-half scale replica modeled on the White House in Washington D.C., was built in Anaheim in 1978. Part of Jay & Bea DeArmond’s Hobby City, it housed her 4,000+ item toy & doll museum that closed in 2008.
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Designed by architect Ron Yeo, the 3-ton, 24-foot clock tower is the prominent feature of Centennial Plaza in Corona del Mar. The city’s commemoration of its 1904 founding also includes benches with hand-painted tiles and a time capsule.
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Starting in early 1929, a gradual landslide east of Point Fermin Park in San Pedro eventually caused 5 acres of land, including streets, sidewalks and 2 houses, to fall into the ocean creating the Sunken City.
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Shasta Beverages is headquartered in the Bay Area. The facility in La Mirada is a corporate production, packaging and distribution center. Both facilities advertised the company’s product with huge, rotating cans until 2019.
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The ten-story tall Lions Lighthouse for Sight stands on a hill at the end of ShoreLine Aquatic Park in Long Beach. It was built in 2000 “as a permanent reminder of Lions Clubs International’s dedication to ending blindness.”
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Bombay Beach, a popular beach-going destination on the eastern shore of the Salton Sea in the 1950s, became a derelict “living ghost town” that has, in turn, attracted photographers, filmmakers, urban explorers, tourists and artists.
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