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The wartime race to produce synthetic rubber left a toxic legacy in the South Bay
Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, was not an isolated act of war. Instead, it was just one part of a series of coordinated military attacks on Western colonies and outposts in the Far East on that day. Japanese forces also attacked Indochina as Southeast Asia then was known.…
Gardena stood alone after South Bay cities battled over legalized gambling
Claude Rains said it to Humphrey Bogart, owner of Rick’s Cafe Americain in the 1942 film classic “Casablanca”: “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.” Nowadays, he could only say that in the South Bay in one of the two legal poker clubs left in Gardena, Larry Flynt’s Hustler Casino…
Riviera Village Shopping Center arose as a result of the Hollywood Riviera housing development
The Riviera Village Shopping Center in Redondo Beach got its official name during the 1950s, but the open-air South Redondo retail area near the beach had been around for decades by then. It developed not unlike Westwood Village did, and at about the same time. Westwood Village and UCLA both opened in 1929, with the…
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