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Five Below, Inc. is an American chain of specialty discount stores that prices most of its products at $5 or less, plus a smaller assortment of products priced up to $25. [5] Founded in 2002 by Tom Vellios and David Schlessinger and headquartered in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, the chain is aimed at tweens and teens. [ 3 ]
Vallejo circa 1852–53, when it served as the capital city of California and seat of the Californian government. Founded in 1854, Mare Island was the first naval base on the West Coast. In 1851, Vallejo was declared to become the official California State Capitol, with the new government prepared to meet for the first time the following year.
The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by John Bidwell, a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. During the American Civil War , Camp Bidwell (named for John Bidwell, by then a brigadier general of the California Militia ), was established a mile outside Chico, by Lt. Col. A. E. Hooker with a company of cavalry and ...
Skechers was founded in 1992 by Robert Greenberg, who had previously founded LA Gear in 1983 (he stepped down as CEO of that company the same year he founded Skechers). Greenberg sought to focus on men's street shoes; Skechers' early products were utility-style boots popular in grunge fashion . [ 3 ]
He founded the towns of Sonoma and Petaluma, California, owned Mare Island and the future town site of Benicia, California, and was granted the 66,622-acre (269.61 km 2) Rancho Petaluma, the 84,000-acre (340 km 2) Rancho Suscol and other properties by Governor José Figueroa in 1834 and later.
Anaheim (/ ˈ æ n ə h aɪ m / AN-ə-hyme) is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, part of the Greater Los Angeles area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 346,824, making it the most populous city in Orange County, the tenth-most populous city in California, and the 56th-most populous city in the United States. [6]
In 1974, J. Paul Getty opened a museum in a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Malibu, California. [6] In 1982, the museum became the richest in the world when it inherited US$1.2 billion. [ 7 ]
Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, [3] [5] making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the United States.