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The Lighthouse Café is a nightclub located at 30 Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach, California. It has been active as a jazz showcase since 1949 and, under the name "The Lighthouse", was one of the best known West Coast jazz clubs from the 1950s through the late 1970s.
A. ^ Ballast Point Light was moved in 1960 to the bell tower which had served as a fog signal building as the 1890 tower had been declared unsafe. The light shone from the top of the bell tower until 1961 when it was replaced by an offshore light.
Newport Beach is a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California, United States. Located about 40 miles (64 km) ...
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Harbor Island is a small artificial island in Newport Beach, California. Newport Harbor is a semi-artificial harbor that was formed by dredging an estuary during the early 1900s. Several artificial islands were built, including Harbor Island, now covered with about thirty private homes.
The name Lido originated from the Lido di Venezia. [citation needed] In 1904 Henry Huntington became a partner with William Collins in the Newport Beach Company.In exchange for extending the Pacific Electric Railway to Newport Beach, Huntington received 250 acres (1.0 km 2) and a 100-foot (30 m) wide right-of-way for the railway. [1]
In 1885 the Lighthouse Service made its first request to replace this lamp with a federal lighthouse, but the replacement was not constructed until 1887. The wooden A-frame house was unlike anything else in the area, and it had neither tower nor lantern room. Instead, a lamp was hung in either gable: red on one end, and white on the other.
Newport Dunes; Bay Back Beach; North Star Beach; East Beach on Bay Island; Balboa Beach; West Jetty View Park; ... Lighthouse Field State Beach: 1872836: Santa Cruz: