Events celebrate Palos Verdes Peninsula's unofficial 100th anniversary

It was billed as a real estate rally to encourage people to buy property on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Photos from that day — June 17, 1923 — show...

May 25, 2023
2:52 AM

It was billed as a real estate rally to encourage people to buy property on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Photos from that day — June 17, 1923 — show Ford Model T's and other cars from that era parked near rolling hills and small trees. Historians say that day nearly a century ago marks the birth of the modern Palos Verdes Peninsula. To celebrate the unofficial 100th birthday of the Peninsula, the Palos Verdes Library District and the Peninsula Friends of the Library, in conjunction with the four cities on the hill, will host Doors Open Peninsula next month.

Michael Hixon