Redondo Beach, California City of Redondo Beach Official seal of Redondo Beach, California Seal Official logo of Redondo Beach, California Location of Redondo Beach in Los Angeles County, California Location of Redondo Beach in Los Angeles County, California Redondo Beach, California is positioned in the US Redondo Beach, California - Redondo Beach, California Redondo Beach is one of the three Beach Cities positioned in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Redondo Beach was originally part of the 1785 Rancho San Pedro Spanish territory grant that later became the South Redondo area.
The city's territory has an unusual shape including an region along the beach (South Redondo Beach) and another strip inland from Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach (North Redondo Beach).
The end of the Metro Rail Green Line is in North Redondo Beach.
7.1 Redondo Beach Police Department 7.2 Redondo Beach Public Library View of Redondo Beach Pier and barns station from the Redondo Hotel, ca.1900 The Chowigna Indians used the site of today's Hopkins Wilderness Park, formerly Nike missile site LA-57 from 1956 to 1963, in Redondo Beach, California, as a lookout place. The wetlands positioned at the site of today's AES power plant in Redondo Beach were a origin of foods including halibut, lobster, and sea bass, and also of salt. In the 1700s, the Chowigna bartered salt from the old Redondo Salt Lake, "a spring-fed salt lake about 200 yards wide and 600 yards long situated about 200 yards from the ocean", with other tribes. Their village by the lake was called "Onoova-nga", or "Place of Salt." Redondo Beach was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish territory grant of the 43,000-acre (170 km2) Dominguez Rancho that later became the ten-mile (16 km) Ocean frontage of Rancho Sausal Redondo.
Redondo Beach's borders Redondo Beach Pier Redondo Beach has a distinct division between the north and south sections of the town/city with 190th, Anita, and Herondo streets forming its east-west boundary line.
South Redondo has wide streets, wide sand beaches and laid-back feel make it a prime destination for those seeking a "bike to the grocery store" community.
North Redondo, north of 190th Street, is an inland improve separated from the beachfront by Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach.
North Redondo is the home of the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, one of the South Bay's premier cultural facilities, and home to the Los Angeles Ballet, Distinguished Speaker Series, Kala Koa Entertainment, and a diverse range of other cultural and entertainment affairs.
The North Branch of the Redondo Beach Library serves this area.
North Redondo is home to nearly two-thirds of the kids in Redondo Beach.
Many initial homes still stand in Redondo Beach neighborhoods, but many small Arts and Crafts style homes have been completed and replaced with new undivided homes.
The pier is a common spot for anglers to cast for a small-town catch; many inhabitants of inland Los Angeles drive to Redondo Beach to take favor of the unique, triangular shape of this pier.
Much of the Redondo Beach lifestyle is a blend of the neighborhoods, activities and citizens of the three Beach Cities of Southern California's South Bay.
Like its sister metros/cities of Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, Redondo's draw is the beach that links the three cities.
The beach starts below the bluffs of Palos Verdes in the south (after Torrance Beach) and carries north to the Redondo Pier.
The Marvin Braude Bike Trail runs from Torrance through South Redondo, north to Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and eventually to Santa Monica.
The path is broken by the Redondo Beach King Harbor Marina and Pier complex, where it veers away from water and onto dedicated lanes of surface streets for about a mile before again turning to the ocean in Hermosa Beach.
Beach volleyball is another aspect of Redondo Beach's lifestyle.
Redondo Beach is home to Gold Medalist Kerri Walsh and AVP Pro Casey Jennings.
Was also seen recording at Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach Pier, and small-town parks.
Also, Redondo Beach was home to the recording of the classic tv series, Baywatch.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Redondo Beach had a populace of 66,748.
The ethnic makeup of Redondo Beach was 49,805 (74.6%) White (65.2% Non-Hispanic White), 1,852 (2.8%) African American, 291 (0.4%) Native American, 8,004 (12.0%) Asian, 199 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 2,725 (4.1%) from other competitions, and 3,872 (5.8%) from two or more competitions.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Redondo Beach had a median homehold income of $99,496, with 5.4% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Before the beach town/city housing boom in the 1990s, Redondo Beach's populace mirrored much of older communities around Los Angeles.
Redondo Beach had generally large numbers of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (esp.
In the early 1900s, the developing improve attracted immigrants, often fishermen and maritime workers of Dutch, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish descent, who used to have neighborhoods on the city's southern end known as "Clifton" (the county region was incorporated into Redondo Beach in 1976).
2 Redondo Beach Unified School District 1,100 3.1% 4 City of Redondo Beach 487 1.4% The average three-bed, two-bath home costs about $1,000,000 in South Redondo as of 2006 and $875,000 in North Redondo.
Redondo Beach Pier, 1991 Redondo Beach Pier, 1991 The Beach Cities Health District, one of 78 California Health Districts, is positioned in Redondo Beach.
Created in 1955, as South Bay Hospital, to furnish community and wellness services to the inhabitants of Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach.
In 2002, Beach Cities Health District opened Adventure - Plex, a Manhattan Beach public facility for youth and their families of the three beach cities.
In the California State Legislature, Redondo Beach is in the 26th Senate District, represented by Democrat Ben Allen, and in the 66th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Al Muratsuchi. In the United States House of Representatives, Redondo Beach is in California's 33rd congressional district, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu. The Redondo Beach Unified School District serves the city.
Redondo Union High School is the zoned high school, with the adjoining ground of Redondo Shores High School positioned to the west of the Redondo Union High School chief grounds serving as a continuation school.
The Redondo Beach Learning Academy day school for grades 9-12 is also positioned on the Redondo Shores High School premises, and the ground is the designated autonomous studies program of the Redondo Beach Unified School District. Additionally, Redondo Beach has two middle schools, Adams Middle School and Parras Middle School.
Adams Middle School, positioned in North Redondo Beach, primarily serves 6th to 8th undertaking students in the North Redondo area, with Parras Middle School being the designated middle school of South Redondo Beach. The town/city also has eight established elementary schools: Alta Vista, Beryl Heights, Birney, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Tulita and Washington. All twelve schools are evenly divided throughout the North and South areas of Redondo Beach, with five elementary schools and one middle school positioned in North/Central Redondo Beach; and four elementary schools, one middle school, and the singular designated high school placed in South Redondo Beach. The Redondo Beach Educational Foundation was established in 1992 and revitalized in 2008. Valor Christian Academy (formerly Coast Christian School) is in Redondo Beach.
Redondo Beach Fire Department harbor patrol The United States Postal Service operates the Redondo Beach Post Office at 1201 North Catalina Avenue, the Redondo Beach Station #2 Post Office at 1715 Via El Prado, the North Redondo Beach Post Office at 2215 Artesia Boulevard, and the Galleria Post Office at Suite 377 - D at 1815 Hawthorne Boulevard. The Redondo Beach Police Department was established in the 1920s.
The first library in Redondo Beach began as a reading room in 1895.
The new Main Library for the City of Redondo Beach opened on July 8, 1995 at 303 N.
Allan Mc - Collum (born 1944), intact artist; interval up in Redondo Beach, and graduated from Aviation High School Amy White, swimmer, 1984 Olympics silver medalist, born in Redondo Beach Michael Burns (born 1947), actor on Wagon Train, It's a Man's World, and various films; historian, horse breeder; lived in Redondo Beach in 1970s Cameron Crowe, author, gathered research at a enhance school Redondo Beach for the basis of his novel Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Damon Edge, musician of band Chrome; resident; died in his Redondo Beach apartment in 1995 Paul Westphal (born 1950), experienced basketball player and coach; interval up in Redondo Beach, and attended Aviation High School. The Smothers Brothers (Tom, born 1937; Dick, born 1939), musicians and actors; interval up in Redondo Beach and graduated from Redondo Union High School William Starke Rosecrans, inventor, coal-oil business executive, diplomat, politician, and United States Army Major General amid the American Civil War, bought 16,000 acres (65 km2) of territory which later became Redondo Beach.
The Redondo Fun Factory at the Redondo Beach International Boardwalk is the recording locale for the music video of Boys Like Girls' "Love Drunk".
The tv show CSI: Miami has been filmed in Redondo Beach.
The tv show Even Stevens filmed mall episodes at Redondo Beach's South Bay Galleria.
The '90s tv show California Dreams is set in Redondo Beach.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition rebuilt a home for the Ripatti-Pearce family who reside in Redondo Beach.
Parts of the movie Point Break were filmed in Redondo Beach (such as the gas station fire/explosion scene took place at the intersection of Beryl and Catalina, and the foot chase passed the famous Dive N' Surf shop).
Redondo Beach is the destination of the road-tripping family in the 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine, although Ventura, CA stood in for Redondo Beach at the end of the film.
Men at Work was filmed in Redondo Beach, which went by the pseudonym Las Playas Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was filmed off the coast of Redondo Beach.
John Travolta's character Vincent Vega in the movie Pulp Fiction lives in Redondo Beach.
The eponymous race in The Cannonball Run ended in Redondo Beach.
The beach scene in Big Momma's House 2 was filmed in Redondo Beach and the pier.
Redondo Beach is home of the fictional Bird of Paradise Motel in the 1990 film The Two Jakes.
Parts of the 1988 movie Tequila Sunrise were filmed in Redondo Beach, specifically, on the Esplanade.
In the movie 1408, the beach scene is set at Hermosa Pier and Redondo Beach.
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