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The Palos Verdes Library District (PVLD) is an independent special library district serving the residents of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. PVLD is governed by a publicly elected Board of Trustees that consists of five members who voluntarily serve without monetary compensation. [ 1 ]
The Peninsula is served by the Palos Verdes Library District, [30] which operates these three libraries: Peninsula Center Library; Miraleste Library; Malaga Cove Library- on the National Historical Register; The 40 Families Project based at Peninsula Center Library documents the history of the Japanese-American community on Palos Verdes before ...
A photograph of a group of mostly Japanese farming families, taken in 1923, was displayed at the Malaga Cove Library in Palos Verdes Estates.In 2005, reference librarian Marjeanne Blinn started the 40 Families History Project, to "preserve the soon-to-be-forgotten history of the Peninsula’s Japanese American settlement to educate future generations."
A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it.
The current Dos Palos branch of the Merced County Library was constructed in 1963. The building has major structural and accessibility issues but is the only library within a 17-mile radius, the ...
Palos Verdes Estates was established as a planned community in 1923, with 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) carved out of the former Rancho Palos Verdes property of over 16,000 acres (6,500 ha). Frank A. Vanderlip established both a land syndicate holding the Palos Verdes Peninsula , and a real estate development trust for the Palos Verdes Estates ...
Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal community in the Los Angeles area, could be described as a geological ticking time bomb. The affluent city sits atop steep cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean that ...
The Palos Verdes Public Library and Art Gallery is a historic building in Palos Verdes Estates, California. It was built in 1929–1930, and designed in the Mediterranean Revival style by architects Myron Hunt and Harold C. Chambers. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 7, 1995. [1]