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Mary Davis and the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach
Entrance to the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach. Nov. 2013 Daily Breeze photo. The redevelopment of the Redondo Beach waterfront in the 1960s had a profound effect on the entire city. Whole city blocks...
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Piecing together Del Amo Boulevard
Construction continues on the Del Amo Blvd. extension connecting Crenshaw Blvd. with Madrona Avenue in this June 2011 file photo looking eastward toward Crenshaw. The extension opened in August 2012....
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The California Yacht Club in Wilmington
Undated postcard shows the California Yacht Club’s original clubhouse in Wilmington. (M. Kashower Company) A group of yachtsmen, some from the Los Angeles Athletic Club and some from other boating...
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Irons Cottage By The Sea in Redondo Beach
This undated line drawing of Irons Cottage By The Sea comes from a restaurant handout, probably from the early 1950s. Before its golden years as a South Bay social hub, the Irons Cottage By The Sea...
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The Torrance Drive-In Theatre
The Torrance Drive-In Theatre dominates this aerial photo of West Torrance taken in 1956. Torrance Boulevard runs diagonally from lower left to upper right of the photo. (Credit: Torrance Historical...
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Torrance’s Space-Age 1958 Rose Parade float
The City of Torrance’s “Rocketship to the Moon” Rose Parade float from 1958. Photo courtesy Jordan Smith’s “The Pie Shops Collection” of photos at http://www.flickr.com/people/hollywoodplace/ The city...
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Lawndale builds its city hall
The first Lawndale City Hall was located on Hawthorne Boulevard between a real estate/loan firm, left, and Frank Tempio’s Paisano club, right, where The Satins were playing on weekends when this...
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The American Nazi Party’s attempts to establish itself in the South Bay
George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party holds a news conference in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 3, 1965. At left is Matt Koehl, and at right is Alan Welch, deputy commander. (AP...
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The dedication of Los Angeles Municipal Airport
Bran and barley fields surrounded the Bennett Rancho makeshift airfield in this undated photo, presumably from the 1920s. (Photo credit: Los Angeles World Airports) The push for Los Angeles to...
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Westchester’s Loyola Theatre
The Loyola Theatre shortly before it closed in 1982. Daily Breeze file photo by Jack Lardomita. The stars came out in force in Westchester on Friday, Oct. 3, 1946, the night that Fox West Coast...
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The Hermosa Beach girl who fell in love with Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn and Beverly Aadland during the filming of “Cuban Rebel Girls,” Flynn’s last film. Photo by The Associated Press. When Beverly Aadland was only two years old in 1944, her mother, Florence,...
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Former Torrance man becomes first person imprisoned for airplane hijacking
The first attempted airplane hijacking is a matter of debate, but most sources cite an incident in Peru on Feb. 21, 1931. Pilot Byron Rickards had landed his Ford Tri-Motor in Arequipa when he was...
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Beatlemania hits the South Bay
Just the sight of The Beatles from a distance caused this reaction among a group of girls at the Los Angeles International airport in this Aug.18, 1964 file photo. Airport security kept the British...
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Wild 1948 joyride ends in tragedy for two South Bay policemen
Hermosa Beach police officer Robert McCaulley. (Photo from Los Angeles Daily News, June 12, 1948.) The pre-dawn events of June 11, 1948 that centered on the Hi-Spot Drive-In restaurant in Hermosa Beach...
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Hermosa Beach’s Insomniac coffeehouse was a Beat Generation haven
The Insomniac coffeehouse, right, and Book and Art Fair, left, are thriving in this undated photo taken by founder Bob Hare. When Bob Hare saw a vacant Hudson Shoe Store for rent one day in 1958 at 53...
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The City of Hahn fails to materialize
The late Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. 1974 Daily Breeze file photo. Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn’s place in history seems secure, even though a 1960 attempt to form a new...
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Jim Thorpe’s days in the South Bay
Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indian School gets off a kick during warm-ups before a game in this 1912 photo. Thorpe scored 25 touchdowns and 198 points that year in leading his team to the national...
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The 1922 Ku Klux Klan Inglewood raid
Ku Klux Klan ceremonial meeting near Los Angeles, Calif. when 800 applicants swelled the ranks of this realm to 4000 members. A crowd of people witnessed the ceremonial, February 13, 1925. (AP Photo)...
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Coastal military readiness at Long Point in Rancho Palos Verdes
The rear entrance to the bunker at Battery Barnes near the Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall. “U.S.E.D.” stands for U.S. Engineering Department, then part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (March 2014...
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Fosters Old Fashioned Freeze
Fosters Freeze #23, 1624 Cravens Avenue, Torrance. (March 2014 Daily Breeze photo) George Foster came out to California after World War II with an eye toward opening Dairy Queen outlets, as he had...
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