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The turret-like tower atop the building was used by the Navy to spot enemy ships off the Southern California coast. [10] Since 1932, when the US Navy brought the Pacific Fleet to Long Beach, the Villa Riviera was known as the "Home of Admirals" as it served as the home of many of the senior officers of the United States Pacific Fleet.
Sunset Beach was established in 1904 and developed as a result of the 1920 discovery of oil in the Huntington Beach Oil Field. [4] On August 2, 2010, the Huntington Beach city council, in a 5–2 vote, voted to annex Sunset Beach making the community a part of the much larger Huntington Beach.
Elizabeth Milbank Anderson: philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education; her house is now the Long Beach Museum of Art; Elizabeth Short (aka "The Black Dahlia"): murder victim (Originally from Boston, Massachusetts) Frank Merriam: Governor of California, 1934–1939; George Deukmejian: Governor of California, 1983–1991
Seacliff State Beach is a state beach park on Monterey Bay, in the town of Aptos, Santa Cruz County, California. It is located off Highway 1 on State Park Drive, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Santa Cruz. The beach is most known for the concrete ship SS Palo Alto lying in the water. North of Seacliff State Beach is New Brighton State Beach.
While 97 percent of Miami Beach had been stable, 1,555 of 18,949 points in Miami Beach had been sinking, at a rate of less than one mm (0.039 in) per year. [193] A building collapse due to sinking is likely only if parts are sinking at different rates, creating tensions that weaken the structure, known as differential settlement.
Newport Beach is a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California, United States.Located about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Newport Beach is known for its sandy beaches.
looking down the cliffs overlooking Pacific Beach north of Crystal Pier. The beach stretches for miles from the Mission Bay jetty to the cliffs of La Jolla.The boardwalk, officially called Ocean Front Walk/Ocean Boulevard, is a pedestrian walkway that runs approximately 3.2 miles along the beach from the end of Law St. in the north down into Mission Beach, ending at the mouth of Mission Bay in ...
House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO.A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise.