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 theContinue reading “Riviera Village Shopping Center arose as a result of the Hollywood Riviera housing development”
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Some still lament the loss of Aviation High School in Redondo Beach
The post-World War II population boom in the South Bay, fueled by returning GIs and the rapid rise of the aerospace industry, posed a major challenge to its school systems in the 1950s. How would they accommodate the increasingly large numbers of students pouring through the doors of their schools? The South Bay Union HighContinue reading “Some still lament the loss of Aviation High School in Redondo Beach”
