The El Segundo Works of Allied Chemical’s General Chemical Division opened in El Segundo in 1920 on a large lot on the northeast corner of Sepulveda Blvd. and Rosecrans Ave. It produced agricultural and industrial chemicals. The town itself had incorporated just three years earlier, but it was growing quickly. Standard Oil of California hadContinue reading “The Point and Plaza El Segundo transform former El Segundo chemical plant site”
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San Pedro’s South Shores housing development proved popular in the 1950s
Veteran real estate developer Fred W. Marlow was fresh from launching major home building projects in Westchester and upscale Windsor Hills when he began looking toward the San Pedro coastline for his next project. By then, he’d established ten real estate brokerage offices in the southwest Los Angeles County area, where the Marlow-Burns Development Co.Continue reading “San Pedro’s South Shores housing development proved popular in the 1950s”
