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Malaga Cove School, the Peninsula’s first permanent school building
Malaga Cove School in 1926, the year it opened to students. (Daily Breeze file photo) Malaga Cove School, one of the South Bay’s most iconic historic buildings, came into existence largely due to the...
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Why the Del Amo name seems to be everywhere you look in the South Bay
Del Amo Boulevard is a major South Bay thoroughfare. Sign at Hawthorne and Del Amo boulevards intersection. (October 2015 Daily Breeze photo) The presence of the Del Amo name on everything from one of...
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Torrance residents: Don’t mess with our rocket ship!
The rocket ship slide in Torrance’s Los Arboles “Rocketship” Park was first installed in 1960. (October 2015 Daily Breeze photo) Los Arboles Park first came onto the City of Torrance drawing boards...
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Martin Bogdanovich launches an empire in Fish Harbor
Martin J. Bogdanovich, founder of Star-Kist Tuna. (Photo courtesy the San Pedro Bay Historical Society) Martin J. Bogdanovich was born on the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea just off the Dalmatian...
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South Bay Center changes the retail landscape
Aerial photo of South Bay Center looking southwest on Dec. 6, 1967. Hawthorne Boulevard is at bottom, Artesia Boulevard at right. (Daily Breeze file photo) News concerning the development of a major...
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Frank Robinson turns a rejected idea into the world’s largest maker of...
Frank Robinson of Robinson Helicopter Company, Torrance. Behind him is the R44 helicopter, police version. (1998 Daily Breeze file photo) Frank Robinson tried to tell his employers in the aerospace...
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Beach cities don’t take no for an answer in bid to create South Bay Hospital
South Bay Hospital in Redondo Beach. Feb. 1, 1985. (Daily Breeze file photo) Imagine the dismay among those pushing for new hospital in the beach cities area of the South Bay when state officials...
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Logan Cotton: An active community participant for more than six decades
Logan Cotton at 90 in Redondo Beach. Oct. 30, 1990. (Daily Breeze photo by Robert Casillas / Staff Photographer) We met Logan Cotton briefly in last week’s blog post on South Bay Hospital. At the time,...
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30 years later, D. Boon of the Minutemen remains a San Pedro legend
D. Boon, undated photo. (Courtesy Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons) Dennes Dale Boon died 30 years ago this month, on Dec. 22, 1985, to be exact. 14 years before that, when he was 13 years old, he dropped...
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Nativity Catholic Church: Torrance’s first Catholic church
Nativity Catholic Church in Torrance. (December 2015 Daily Breeze photo) The first Catholic church in Torrance began as an idea in the minds of the area’s Catholic residents who had moved to the area...
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When was the last time real snow fell in the South Bay / Harbor Area?
Snow can be seen on the hills of the Palos Verdes Peninsula following the Jan. 11, 1949, snowfall. (Photo courtesy of San Pedro Bay Historical Society) When was the last time it snowed, really snowed...
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Gardena High School commemorates the last of the Mohicans
Gardena High cheer squad members wear their “Gardena Mohicans” uniforms for the last time at the school’s “Last of the Mohican Ceremony” on April 17, 1998. (Daily Breeze staff file photo) Sports team...
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After a brush with extinction, Torrance Park’s Kendall Field thrives
Kendall Field at Torrance Park. (Jan. 2016 Daily Breeze photo) Semipro baseball once thrived in Torrance, back in the days when large manufacturing plants such as Union Tool and Columbia Steel employed...
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Pier Avenue School in Hermosa Beach becomes the city’s community center
The Hermosa Beach Community Center, with the Veterans Memorial in the foreground. (Jan.s 2016 Daily Breeze photo) The Hermosa Beach Community Center, one of the beach city’s most recognizable public...
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Nash-Kelvinator brings the auto industry to El Segundo following World War II
The 1951 Nash Statesman, one of the company’s Airflyte models. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Charles Williams Nash , the man who founded the company that brought the automobile industry to El Segundo –...
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Dolley Drug Co., one of the first businesses in Torrance
Harry H. Dolley, left, behind soda fountain, and his father, W.C. Dolley, with mustache at right, inside the Dolley Drug Co. in an undated photo circa 1922. (Credit: Torrance Historical Society) Harry...
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DirecTV transforms the television broadcasting industry
Clear blue skies provide the setting for DirecTV’s headquarters on Thursday, May 4, 2006, in El Segundo. Since the 2015 merger with AT&T, the DirecTV logo atop the building has been replaced by the...
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Del Conte’s in Torrance kept its customers happy for three decades
Del Conte’s restaurant at 2900 Pacific Coast Highway in Torrance. January 1999 Daily Breeze file photo. Del Conte’s Restaurant became a revered institution in Torrance during its 30 years of doing...
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Actor and Palos Verdes Estates resident Buddy Ebsen’s rich career
Buddy Ebsen at home in Palos Verdes Estates. Ebsen, star of “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Barnaby Jones,” recently had written his autobiography, “The Other Side of Oz.” Feb. 17. 1994. (Daily Breeze...
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The day the Redondo Beach pier went up in flames
The Edge restaurant, center, at the Redondo Beach pier is fully involved in flames on May 27, 1988. A fireboat battles the blaze at far left. ( Daily Breeze file photo) Friday, May 27, 1988 was a...
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