The Chase Bank in Santa Ana, a rendition of Millard Sheets’ well-known mausoleum style of modernism, sits on a diagonal at the corner of N Main & Washington. This branch has both a mosaic & stained glass piece from the Sheets studio.
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Here’s what can be said to be definitely true about the Donut Hole in La Puente. It wasn’t the only Donut Hole bakery – it was the 2nd of 5 locations, but is the only one that still exists. It has been in continuous operation since 1968.
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It is said that Ely Callaway put Temecula on the map as a serious wine producing region. Callaway Vineyard and Winery is the oldest Temecula winery still in operation. He sold the winery in 1981 to start Callaway Golf Company.
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The Shakespeare Bridge in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles is technically the Franklin Avenue Bridge. Designed by J.C. Wright of the LA Bureau of Engineering, it was built in 1926, rebuilt in a 4-year seismic retrofit starting in 1994.
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Much of the coast of what is now Southern California was a tropical reef 17-18 million years ago. The remains of that reef were exposed in Laguna Hills in 1973. Orange County agencies worked together to create Fossil Reef Park in 1982.
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The former Home Savings & Loan Bank (now Chase) at Harbor & Lincoln in Anaheim is generally a massive Modernist block built in 1970. Like some 150 Home Savings banks, it was designed and built by Millard Sheets featuring a huge mosaic.
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The incorporation document for the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association was signed on July 10, 1867. The Town Common Council sold the property “for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar gold coin of the United States.”
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