The Golden Cove Shopping Center in Rancho Palos Verdes isn’t located directly on the ocean. It just feels like it is. Situated at the southern terminus of Hawthorne Blvd. at its intersection with Palos Verdes Drive West, the cozy center is named for Golden Cove, an ocean cove dotted by tidepools that’s just a briefContinue reading “Rancho Palos Verdes’ seaside shopping center at Golden Cove”
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Miraleste has been part of the Palos Verdes Peninsula for more than a century
When Palos Verdes Peninsula landowner Frank Vanderlip and his associates drew up the detailed master plan for their Palos Verdes Project in 1923, it consisted of four distinct areas to be developed: Malaga Cove, Lunada Bay, Valmonte and Miraleste. The first three were connected areas on the west side of the Palos Verdes Hills. MiralesteContinue reading “Miraleste has been part of the Palos Verdes Peninsula for more than a century”
Huge postwar Kettler Knolls development carpeted Southeast Torrance with homes
The Kettler Ranch acreage in present-day Southeast Torrance was built on a ranch that once belonged to German immigrant Emil Kettler. Born in 1847, the pioneering farmer and landowner and his wife, Amalie, originally had settled on farmland he bought in Wilmington in 1877. Two years later, he sold that land in order to purchaseContinue reading “Huge postwar Kettler Knolls development carpeted Southeast Torrance with homes”
