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In 1837, Mexican Governor Juan B. Alvarado granted a 22,000-acre tract of land to Don Ygnacio Palomares and Don Ricardo Vejar. Palomares built what is credited as the first structure in the Pomona valley and, by 1854, Adobe de Palomares.
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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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Hollywoodland was a real estate development and the sign on Mt. Lee was a 50′ high billboard erected in 1923. When the ‘H’ fell over in 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce took ownership and repaired it, dropping the “land.”
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The 13-story Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood was designed by Louis Naidorf. Construction was completed in April 1956. The mural by artist Richard Wyatt Jr. on the south wall, entitled “Hollywood Jazz: 1945-1972,” was restored in 2011.
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Designed by architect Richard Meier, Getty Center opened in 1997. The Getty Museum’s 6 buildings house J. Paul Getty’s extensive art collection. It is also home of Getty Research Institute, Getty Conservation Institute & Getty Foundation.
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John Temple bought the land on which Rancho Los Cerritos was built and constructed the two-story Monterey-style adobe in 1844 for his cattle operation headquarters. Jotham Bixby lived with his family in the adobe from 1866 to 1881.
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