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Sam Wyly and his brother Charles Wyly bought the small Bonanza restaurant chain three years later. The company grew to approximately 600 restaurants by 1989, [5] when the Wylys sold it to Metromedia. [6] In 1965, Dan Lasater, Norm Wiese and Charles Kleptz founded Ponderosa in Kokomo, Indiana, moving the headquarters to Dayton, Ohio, in 1971. [7]
The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [ 1 ] In 1949, Oakland, CA, received the fifth regional dial switching center for Operator Toll Dialing in the nation, [ 2 ] which set the stage for ...
Coco's Bakery is a subsidiary chain of Shari's Cafe & Pies and casual dining restaurants operating in the western United States. As of October 2024, the company operates 5 locations in California. It began as The Snack Shop in 1948 in Corona del Mar, California, and had switched owners multiple times. Two of them are franchised (Upland, and ...
Norms in West Los Angeles in 2008 (since demolished) The first Norms opened on Sunset Boulevard near Vine Street in 1949. The oldest surviving Norms, declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument number 1090 in 2015, [3] opened on La Cienega Boulevard in 1957, featuring a distinctive angular and brightly colored style that came to be known as Googie architecture. [4]
An Elephant Bar at Serramonte Center in Daly City, California. Elephant Bar was a scratch-kitchen restaurant in the United States that specialized in globally-based dishes and traditional American fare. The corporate office was located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their first restaurant opened in Lubbock, Texas in 1980. In 2015, the chain comprised 25 ...
The western portion of Torrance is in ZIP Code 90277 which is a city of Redondo Beach postal address. [21] It is about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Downtown Los Angeles. [22] Torrance Beach lies between Redondo Beach and Malaga Cove on Santa Monica Bay. [23]
Naugles was a Southern California fast-food Mexican restaurant chain that existed from 1970 to 1995. A revived Naugles chain was established in 2015 by entrepreneur Christian Ziebarth, after it was ruled that the trademarks had been abandoned by the original company's successor, Del Taco.
Del Amo Fashion Center is a three-level regional shopping mall in Torrance, California, United States.It is currently managed and co-owned by Simon Property Group.. With a gross leasable area (GLA) of 2,519,601 sq ft (234,079 m 2), it is the seventh largest shopping mall in the United States.