Millard Sheets’ 40-by-16-foot “Pleasures Along the Beach” mosaic mural has been installed at the Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange as the artist envisioned. Sheets created the mural for the Santa Monica Home Savings in 1969. It was restored by Brian Worley who worked on the mosaic as an intern in 1969. The finished mosaic was unveiled on January 30, 2024.
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The Chaplain’s Residence in the Hillcrest area of San Diego, built in 1896 and first occupied in 1897, is the last remaining structure of the St. Joseph’s Sanitarium, a hospital founded in 1890 by the Sisters of Mercy.
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The James Fielding Cosby House in Pasadena, built in 1893 in the central downtown area of Los Angeles, is described as “an exuberant, high style example of the late nineteenth century Queen Anne style of architecture.”
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A small, hexagonal building in Long Beach got a programmatic makeover in about 1932, adding a metal and glass percolator on the roof, to become the Hot Cha Café. It was renamed Koffee Pot Café, but remained a coffee shop into the 1960s.
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The vintage 785-square-foot drive-through that once catered to Alta-Dena Dairy customers is, as of February 1, 2024, the latest caffeine hub in Tustin. The Googie-style store had been a noticeable staple in the city for over 70 years.
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The Santa Ysabel Asistencia was founded in 1818 as a “sub-mission” to Mission San Diego de Alcalá. It was to have been a link in a second, inland chain of missions in Alta California, a rest stop between San Diego and Sonora.
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On October 30, 1946, George Foster kicked off the California soft-serve ice cream craze when he opened Foster’s Old Fashion Freeze in Inglewood. The soft-serve ice cream was so popular that the chain had expanded to 360 locations by 1951.
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