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26 DIGS.NET | 6.25.2021 JUNE 25, 2021 | ISSUE 256 TO OUR READERS South Bay DIGS welcomes your feedback and encourages reader response to our editorial features. Please send your letters to the Publisher at 722 1st Street, Unit D, Hermosa Beach, California, 90254 or via email to WDOW@southbaydigs.com. Please include your name and contact information. Letters may be published and we reserve the right to edit. ADVERTISING For inquiries, please contact Publisher Warren Dow at 310.373.0142. EDITORIAL For editorial inquiries, please email Editorial@SouthBayDIGS.com On The Cover Broad Views, HIGH STYLE A distinctive Strand condominium combines warm chic, au courant automation and endless scenes of sky and ocean P R E S E N T E D B Y SHAWN DUGAN | STRAND HILL PROPERTIES - CHRISTIE'S INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE F E A T U R E O N P A G E X X FIND YOUR PLACE. 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Any and all submissions to this publication become the property of m3 Media, LLC and may be used in any media. CREATIVE SERVICES & AD DESIGN/ORIGINAL ARTWORK PROVIDED EXCLUSIVELY BY SOUTH BAY DIGS. © 2021 Micro Market Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Publisher Editorial Director Marketing Director Business Development Director Digital Media Director Video Editor Senior Graphic Designer Graphic Designer Contributing Writers Senior Staff Photographer Warren J. Dow Amy Adams Kyle Coats Bud Moore Kieron McKay Matt Polizzi Rufus Agbede Jim Alba Jenn Thornton Constance Dunn Karine Monié Joclene Davey Abigail Stone Paul Jonason CO N N E C T W I T H U S Listen & subscribe on iTunes, digs.net or your favorite podcast provider. The Titans of Real Estate INFLUENCERS PODCAST .net S O U T H B A Y History Tidbits DRE#: 01368971 Maureen Megowan 310.541.6416 mdmegowan@gmail.com PALOS VERDES ROAD DEVELOPMENT Road Construction on the Palos Verdes Peninsula did not take place until the 1920's. Palos Verdes Drive West in the Valmonte and Malaga Cove area was the first road developed as part of the original Palos Verdes Project. Palos Verdes Drive East in the Miraleste area, then known as Western Ave. and which was then part of the Palos Verdes Project, was then developed to facilitate lot sales there. In 1926, the coast road connecting Redondo Beach to San Pedro, previously called Granvia La Costa, now called Palos Verdes Drive West, was c o m p l e t e d , including the m o n u m e n t a l "Douglas Cut", which was blasted away above Bluff Cove. This road was simply referred to as the Coast Road. Old maps shows the Coast road connecting to "Western Ave", which later was renamed Palos Verdes Drive East and now runs into Narbonne Ave on the north. Western Avenue later was constructed between Narbonne/Palos Verdes Drive East and Gaffey Street in San Pedro. Pacific Coast Highway was named Redondo and Wilmington Road at that time and connected to Anaheim Street at the current junction with Western Ave. Palos Verdes Drive North was completed in the mid 1930's The extension of Crenshaw from Crest road to Palos Verdes Drive South was never completed due to the Portuguese Bend landslide in the mid 1950's which was triggered by road grading for the extension of Crenshaw Blvd. Road construction moved forward rapidly in the late 1950's and through the mid 1960's. Construction of Crenshaw Boulevard up a canyon from Palos Verdes Drive North to Crest road commenced in mid June 1950. and was completed in September 1951, utilizing labor for the construction by inmates at County Detention Camp No. 7 in the Peninsula Center area. Crest road, constructed by the developers of the Palos Verdes Project, ran from Palos Verdes Dr. East across the top of the hill and then down to Palos Verdes Drive West along the current lower portion of Hawthorne Blvd. Prior to extending Crenshaw up the hill, Crenshaw had extended to the gated entrance to Rolling Hills, and that portion of Crenshaw was then renamed Rolling Hills Road. The extension of Crenshaw from Crest road to Palos Verdes Drive South was never completed due to the Portuguese Bend landslide in the mid 1950's which was triggered by road grading for the extension of Crenshaw Blvd. Construction of Hawthorne Blvd. through the Peninsula was completed in several segments. Hawthorne Blvd. was completed from Silver Spur Road to Crest in 1959. The segment from Palos Verdes Drive North to Silver Spur Road was completed in 1961. Hawthorne Avenue veered right into Palos Verdes Estates at what is today called Via Valmonte. After several years of planning, the final segment extending Hawthorne Blvd. from Newton in Torrance to Palos Verdes Drive North was completed in 1965. The above is an excerpt from my book "Historic Tales of Palos Verdes and the South Bay". For more info see http://www.southbayhistory.com.