Following several years of preparation and the input of residents and preservation advocates, the City of San Marino passed a new historic preservation ordinance on April 11, 2018, marking a major milestone for preservation in this 3.7-square-mile city in the San Gabriel Valley.  The new ordinance went into effect on May 11. The new ordinance […]

Make your special event even more memorable by holding it at a unique historic site!

Santa Fe Springs does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. The City owns and operates the historically significant Clarke Estate, designed by master architect Irving Gill.  However, Santa Fe Springs has not yet enacted policies aimed at protecting privately owned, historic resources.

Take a behind-the-scenes tour of The Million Dollar Theater on October 25, 2025.

Take a behind-the-scenes tour of The Million Dollar Theater on October 25, 2025.

What is it about Wilshire that makes it the equator of our fair city? Is it the Berlin Wall of Beverly Hills & South City? The great wall of housekeepers & porcelain pretty? Wilshire is glamourous & gritty, quintessential all city… It personifies all that is Los Angeles.. pockets of people pack the boulevard cars cars cars..  Monuments & mendicants mix on Wilshire, single room occupants keep moving.. The itinerant immigrants works Wilshire as its lifeblood.. Wilshire is […]