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On December 23, 1969, Newport Beach police seized a reel of the controversial Swedish erotic film I Am Curious (Yellow) from the Balboa Theater just before its second showtime. A municipal judge, representatives from the county district attorney 's office, and police officers were present at the first screening of the film, leading to the ...
Newport Coast is located at 2] in the San Joaquin Hills above Crystal Cove State. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Census Designated Place (CDP) has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2). 7.1 square miles (18 km 2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) of it (2.22%) is water.
Reggie Jackson, Hall of Fame baseball player, lived in Newport Beach; Jürgen Klinsmann, German football manager and former football player; Kevin Kouzmanoff, MLB player, San Diego Padres [20] Jillian Kraus (born 1986), water polo player; Ilia Kulik, figure skater; Joffery Lupul, NHL player, Toronto Maple Leafs; Bill Macatee, sportscaster
Originally, Balboa Island was little more than a mudflat surrounded by swampland. Today's Newport Harbor emerged only after dredging millions of tons of silt. In the late 1860s, James McFadden and his brother, Robert, purchased a large portion of the future site of Newport, including the oceanfront of Newport Beach, much of Balboa Peninsula, and the sandbars that were to become Balboa Island ...
The first building, at 400 Newport Center Drive, went up in 1967, with the majority of the center's buildings following in the 1970s, designed primarily in the International Style. Pereira's futurist Pacific Mutual building was added in 1972, which became one of Newport Beach's most well-known architectural landmarks. Newport Center and Fashion ...
View of the Newport Municipal Pier from the beach at dawn. The Newport Pier is one of two municipal piers in the city of Newport Beach, California. The pier replaced the McFadden Wharf (1888-1939) and the site is registered as California Historical Landmark number 794. [1] It is 1,032 feet (314.6 m) long.
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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.