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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The Point and Plaza El Segundo transform former El Segundo chemical plant site
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”
The Big Ben department store may be long gone, but Torrance Towne Center still thrives
The origin of the present-day outdoor shopping center known as Torrance Towne Center can be traced to 1959. At the Sept. 8, 1959 Torrance City Council meeting, George L. Graziadio, represented Airport Plaza, Inc., a group of developers with combined assets of $8 million. On its behalf, he presented a proposal calling for the constructionContinue reading “The Big Ben department store may be long gone, but Torrance Towne Center still thrives”
