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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Built in 1941 by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect “the towns of Fullerton, Placentia & Anaheim, & the highly developed agricultural area from floods,” the Fullerton Dam was designed to retain up to 751M gallons of water.
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