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The island is 22 mi (35 km) long and 8 mi (13 km) across at its largest width. The island is situated in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 29 mi (47 km) south-southwest of Long Beach, California. Politically, Catalina Island is part of Los Angeles County in District 4.
City Terrace is an unincorporated area of East Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California, east of Downtown Los Angeles.It contains City Terrace Elementary School, Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School, Esteban Torres High School, Harrison Elementary School, William R. Anton Elementary School, Hammel Street Elementary School, Anthony Quinn Library, City Terrace Library, and City Terrace Park.
The house was built in 1919–1921 as a summer retreat for the Wrigleys of Chicago, who owned 99% of Santa Catalina Island, one of the Channel Islands of California. [3] It was designed in the Georgian Colonial Revival style by architect Zachary Taylor Davis, who had also designed Wrigley Field in Chicago, and would return to design Wrigley ...
Avalon is the only incorporated city on Santa Catalina Island, in the California Channel Islands, and the southernmost city in Los Angeles County. The city is a resort community with the waterfront dominated by tourism-oriented businesses. The older parts of the town on the valley floor consist primarily of small houses and two and three-story ...
Catalina Caper, which takes place on Santa Catalina Island, is a 1967 beach party/heist movie starring Tommy Kirk and featuring Little Richard. [ 57 ] San Miguel is a 2012 historical novel by T. C. Boyle about two separate attempts by families to operate commercial livestock ranches on the northern island of San Miguel, one in the late 19th ...
In 1887 he bought Santa Catalina Island, California from the estate of James Lick for a price of $150,000. [1] Shatto planned to develop the bay town then known as Timm's Landing into a resort destination and to lease out other areas of the island for mining and ranching. [ 2 ]
The Gulf of Santa Catalina, also the Gulf of Catalina, is a gulf in the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast of the United States. The eastern coast of the gulf belongs to the states of California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. The largest town on the shore of the gulf is San Diego. The islands in the gulf include Santa Catalina Island.
Santa Catalina Island bedstraw; Santa Catalina Island currant; Santa Catalina Island manzanita; List of films and TV series set in Santa Catalina Island, California; George Shatto; SS Avalon (1891) SS Catalina