Bananas, the Triceratops Dinosaur, is installed above the New Mandarin Garden Restaurant in the Old Town Square in San Clemente in 2018. It is a unique identifier for the Chinese food restaurant and the surrounding commercial enterprise.
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Part of a Union Oil gas station was moved across the street by a team of horses for this first Laguna Beach Lifeguard Dept. home. Citizen activism saved it from demolition in the 70s and it was lifeguard HQ into the mid 80s.
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Originally built in the late 1800s, the tower at 1 Anderson St was replaced in the 1940s with a 75K gal tank standing 90 feet tall. In 1984, new owners replaced the tank with a replica enclosing a 2,800 sq ft, 4-bedroom home.
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The YMCA Building in Riverside was built in 1909. Vacated in 1968, it was purchased in 1974 by Bent Corydon for use as a Church of Scientology Mission. It is now owned by Life Arts Center Inc. of which Corydon is president.
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The Del Prado Gateway Arch in Dana Point, dedicated in 2015, commemorates the city’s history from novelist Richard Henry Dana to developer Sidney Woodruff whose Dana Point Lantern District promotion brought interest to the area.
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The Pilgrim, a replica of the ship in “Two Years Before the Mast”, sank in its slip at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point on Sunday, March 29, 2020. It had been scheduled for repairs in January, but the shipyard was overloaded.
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This was Fender’s Radio Service from 1944 to 1951, Leo Fender’s retail store where he developed Fender guitars & amps. The mural “With a Little Help From My Friends” at the back of the building is by Katherine England.
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