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The name Lido originated from the Lido di Venezia. [citation needed] In 1904 Henry Huntington became a partner with William Collins in the Newport Beach Company.In exchange for extending the Pacific Electric Railway to Newport Beach, Huntington received 250 acres (1.0 km 2) and a 100-foot (30 m) wide right-of-way for the railway. [1]
The original 1,700-square-foot (158 m 2) restaurant was adjoined by a 9,000-square-foot (836 m 2) annex. The building housing the restaurant was formerly a branch of the Bank of America, whose former logo can be seen embedded in the corner of the building. The restaurant was established in 1951 and is considered a local landmark.
The stars are not permanent and restaurants are constantly being re-evaluated. If the criteria are not met, the restaurant will lose its stars. [1] Michelin published restaurant guides for Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009 but suspended the publication in 2010. [4]
Manhattan Beach benefits from ocean breezes that provide clean air and summer temperatures that are 10 to 20 °F (5.6 to 11.1 °C) cooler than the inland regions of Southern California. The city has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10 km 2). Manhattan Beach features 2.1 miles (3.4 km) of ocean frontage.
In 1902, James McFadden sold all of his Newport property, including the Newport townsite, about half the Balboa Peninsula, and the swamplands that were to become Harbor, Lido, and Balboa Islands (totaling about 900 acres (360 ha)) to William Stepp "WS" Collins (WS Collins was also president of the Associated Oil Company) and C. A. Hanson for an ...
In March 1939, a new movie theater to be built near the entrance of Lido Isle was proposed with plans drafted by the Griffith Company. The projected cost of the project was US$105,000, including $15,000 to purchase the lot, $45,000 for the building, $15,000 for theater equipment, and $30,000 to create a parking lot and landscape the surrounding area. [1]
Versailles is a chain of three Cuban cuisine restaurants in Los Angeles, California, USA. The first restaurant in this chain opened in 1971 in West Los Angeles , specifically in the Palms district on Venice Blvd, just north of Culver City.
The Beach Cities are a collection of three independently incorporated oceanfront cities in Los Angeles County south of El Segundo and north of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, comprising the cities of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach. [4] They occupy the majority of the south end of Santa Monica Bay.