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The Jergins Trust Building was a 10-story Beaux-Arts style commercial building in Long Beach, California, built in 1919.The building contained office space and a ground-floor theatre and was known for its façade featuring terra-cotta shields and gargoyles.
The Breakers Hotel was developed by a local Long Beach banker and capitalist, Fred B. Dunn. [4] Construction began in fall 1925, with a projected cost of $2,250,000. [4] The original structure consisted of a single-story base that spanned an entire city block with a central tower rising thirteen stories above the main body of the building.
The island was originally called Isla Raza de Buena Gente [2] and later Rattlesnake Island. [3] It was renamed Terminal Island in 1891. [2]In 1909, the newly reincorporated Southern California Edison Company decided to build a new steam station to provide reserve capacity and emergency power for the entire Edison system and to enable Edison to shut down some of its small, obsolete steam plants.
Villa Riviera is a registered historic building on Ocean Boulevard in the Alamitos Beach neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States. The building was an "own-your-own" apartment building and each unit was sold fully furnished. In those days, Apartment-Hotels were apartment buildings featuring full service hotel amenities.
The Ocean Center Building. The original layout of the Ocean Center Building had two ground floors: an entrance above the shoreline on the bluff level to take advantage of its address on 110 West Ocean Boulevard, and an east entrance at the base of the Pine Avenue incline providing beach access and accommodating the Walk of a Thousand Lights of The Pike amusement zone.
The Strand in Manhattan Beach in 2023. (Sydney Krantz / For The Times) In Los Angeles’ high-end rental market, it’s long been common to find homes advertised for $10,000 a month or more.
The Balboa Amusement Producing Company (also known as Balboa Studios, and Balboa Feature Film Company) [1] was a film production company in Long Beach, California, from 1913 to 1918 [2] that produced more than 1000 films, [2] around 90% of which have been lost.
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