Manhattan Beach
| Manhattan Beach | |
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 View of the Manhattan Beach Pier |
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| Location in California | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1912 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | California |
| County : | Los Angeles County |
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 53 ′ N , 118 ° 25 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
35,135 (as of 2010) 10.04 |
| Height : | 20 m |
| Postcodes : | 90266, 90267 |
| Area code : | +1 310, 424 |
| FIPS : | 06-45400 |
| GNIS ID : | 1660985 |
| Website : | www.citymb.info |
| Mayor : | Amy Thomas Howorth |
 Homes in Manhattan Beach |
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Manhattan Beach is a city in Los Angeles County in the US state of California . The city has 35,135 inhabitants (as of April 1, 2010) and an area of 10.04 km². Manhattan Beach is located on the Pacific Ocean and is bordered by El Segundo , Gardena , Hawthorne , Redondo Beach, and Hermosa Beach . The beach is approximately 3.38 km (2.1 miles ) long. Manhattan Beach and the neighboring cities of Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach are among the three beach cities in the catchment area of the South Bay of Los Angeles. The city is on California State Route 1 , also known as the Pacific Coast Highway.
In 1983, the McMartin Trial was triggered in Manhattan Beach . It was one of the earliest satanist and child abuse trials. Parts of the American television series OC, California were filmed in the city and at the local Mira Costa High School until early 2007 . OC stands for Orange County , but Manhattan Beach does not belong to Orange County.
history
The first known inhabitants of the area on which Manhattan Beach is located today were Indians from the Tongva tribe. After the Spaniards founded the Mission San Gabriel in 1771 and ten years later the settlement El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles ("City of the Queen of Angels"), a small street was built that crossed the salt flats that the Indians mined , associated with Los Angeles. After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1822, the new Mexican government auctioned the land to the highest bidders. In the case of what is now Manhattan Beach, this was Antonio Ygnacio Avila , who had purchased 91 square kilometers of land in the area to raise sheep . Most of California's new landowners lost their possessions in the years following the Mexican-American War . After the Scottish immigrant Sir Robert Burnett acquired the land of Avila in 1863 , he leased it to the Canadian Daniel Freeman in 1873 for $ 33,000 and then returned to Scotland. In 1885 Freeman bought the ranch from Burnett for $ 140,000. George H. Peck later acquired a large part of the land that now forms the northern part of Manhattan Beach.
In 1903, the Pacific Electric Railway built a suburban line that stretched west from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica , from there along the shoreline south to Redondo Beach , and also passed Manhattan Beach. In 1940 the line was stopped again. Today a bicycle path runs roughly along the course of the former line.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Jeff Tarango (* 1968), tennis player
- Tessa Allen (born 1996), actress
- Gavin Hoover (* 1997), cyclist
Known residents
- C. Thomas Howell (born 1966), actor
- Kevin James (born 1965), actor
- Bob Bradley (born 1958), football coach
- Mme. Charles Cahier (1870–1951), opera singer
- Rachel Hunter (* 1969), photo model and actress
- Tara Reid (born 1975), actress
- Ron Hextall (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player
- Michael Cammalleri (* 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
- Brian Cook , basketball player
- Johnny Depp (born 1963), actor
- Landon Donovan (born 1982), football player
- Cobi Jones (born 1970), football player
- Alexander Frolow (* 1982), Russian ice hockey player
- Dave Coulier (born 1959), actor
- Devean George (born 1977), basketball player
- Michelle Kwan (born 1980), figure skater
- Marisa Miller (* 1978), model
- Holly McPeak (* 1969), beach volleyball player
- Slava Medvedenko (* 1979), Unkrainian basketball player
- Benjamin McKenzie (born 1978), actor
- Mike Mignola (* 1960), comic book author
- Kevin Nealon (born 1953), actor
- Michael Olowokandi (* 1975), British-Nigerian basketball player
- Liz Phair (* 1967), singer / songwriter and guitarist
- Teri Polo (born 1969), actress
- Thomas Pynchon (* 1937), writer
- Željko Rebrača (* 1972), Serbian basketball player
- Maria Sharapova (* 1987), Russian tennis player
- Owen Wilson (born 1968), actor
- Marc Crawford (born 1961), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Lamar Odom (born 1979), basketball player
- Max Thieriot (* 1988), actor
- Brad Bird (* 1957), film director, producer and screenwriter
- Jordan Belfort (* 1962), motivational speaker and stock market trader
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Council - City of Manhattan Beach ( Memento of the original dated December 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
