The day they found the Peninsula
The way we were, and the way we are In a new exhibition, Rick Humphrey merges art and local history by Bondo Wyszpolski In the early 1920s, a grand vision for the Palos Verdes Peninsula began taking shape, promoted by its founding fathers. But by the end of that same decade something nasty came along to snuff it out, the Great Depression. However, a few things did get in under the wire — Malaga Cove Plaza is the best example, along with Malaga Cove School and the Malaga Cove Library — but several did not: Valmonte Plaza and Lunada Bay Plaza in particular. Other reminders of that original vision exist as well, having weathered a century of city planning and growth. The “founding” of the Peninsula began 100 years ago, dated (accurately or otherwise) June 17, 1923, when a real estate car rally took place on the site of what became Malaga Cove School. It was on that day that the public was invited to view the new plans and to purchase property in Palos Verdes Estates. After that, the development of the Peninsula was off to the races. About a year ago, Rick Humphrey, a longtime resident of the Hill (his family moved to Lunada Bay in 1959), was in the history room of the Palos Verdes…
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