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He purchased the 16,000 acre Rancho de los Palos Verdes from Jotham Bixby in 1913. In 1916, he built the Vanderlip estates near the Portuguese Bend area of Palos Verdes, California. His daughter-in-law Elin Vanderlip maintained residence at the estate until her death in 2009 and her husband's ashes are spread on the grounds.
The Portuguese Bend landslide was activated in 1956, before Rancho Palos Verdes was incorporated as a city. [21] Beginning in September 1956 and continuing until early 1957, [ 22 ] the area experienced a landslide concurrent with the construction of a road (the Crenshaw Boulevard extension, south of Crest Road) along the top of an ancient ...
Rancho Palos Verdes has been under a local state of emergency since October 2023, and natural gas service was shut off in Portuguese Bend on July 29.
Abalone Cove, Portuguese Bend, Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Abalone Cove State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) and Point Vicente State Marine Reserve (SMR) are two adjoining marine protected areas that extend offshore in Los Angeles County on California's south coast. The two marine protected areas cover 19.87 sq mi (51.5 km 2). The marine ...
The Portuguese Bend landslide was triggered in the summer of 1956 — nearly two decades before Rancho Palos Verdes became a city — when a Los Angeles County road crew was constructing an ...
Jaconi, 45, is a lifelong resident of the Portuguese Bend Beach Club, a small gated community just off Palos Verdes Drive South that has the most direct access to the evolving beach.
The deep landslides beneath multi-million dollar homes in Rancho Palos Verdes moved at an almost glacial pace, until they didn’t. ... Drive near the Portuguese Bend Community, Rancho Palos ...
Community leader Gordon Leon stands near a growing fissure near a road in the Abalone Cove neighborhood in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes on May 29.