Pacific Palisades Centennial
1922 - 2022
For Now and Forever!
Celebrate the Holidays with a gift that commemorates
Your Home Town
© Pacific Palisades Historical Society 2022
Commemorative Blanket
Honor and celebrate our town with this unique
Tapestry Blanket!
NEW SHIPMENT HAS ARIVED !!
Perfect gift for the Holidays
For family, friends or a business gift!
Commemorate the Centennial Year
with this beautiful, unique work of art
celebrating our History!
An original design featuring Historic Landmarks
in Pacific Palisades:
Founders Oak Island - Thelma Todd Cafe
Bay Theater - Getty Villa - Business Block
Eames House - Will Rogers House -
Castle Rock - Long Wharf -
PCH Lighthouse
The Centennial Tapestry Blanket is Custom designed and produced by the Pacific Palisades Historical Society.
100% Cotton Woven Blanket
Made in the USA
Size: 51 inches x 68 inches
$100.00 (includes sales tax)
Plus Shipping & Handling
Image Key for the Commemorative Blanket
Founders Oak Island
Birthplace of Pacific Palisades, located in the 900 Block of Haverford, is owned and maintained by the Pacific Palisades Historical Society.
Thelma Todd Café
The 1930s beachside café, located on Pacific Coast Highway adjacent to the Porto Marina Bridge, is named for the infamous actress and celebrity Thelma Todd (1906-1935), who’s puzzling death on December 16, 1935 became an unsolved Hollywood mystery.
Bay Theater
Originally designed by S. Charles Lee, this popular movie house opened in 1948 at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and La Cruz. The Bay Theater was closed in late 1978 and converted into the Norris Hardware store until it closed on August 31, 2018. The Bay Theater marquee was replicated for a new theater in Caruso’s Palisades Village, which opened in 2020 on Swarthmore Avenue.
Getty Villa
The Getty Villa Museum, a reconstruction after the Villa Papyri in Herculaneum, Italy, which was destroyed in A.D. 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, houses Getty’s collection of ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan art. The Museum, built adjacent to Getty’s home, opened in 1974, and is located at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Coastline Drive.
Will Rogers House
Will Rogers State Historic Park and Ranch House are on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic Ranch House contains priceless paintings and western memorabilia from Rogers’ life as an actor, columnist, philosopher and popular radio personality. At his untimely death in a plane crash in 1935, the Will Rogers ranch consisted of a 31-room ranch house with neighboring guest housing, a stable, corrals, riding ring, roping arena, polo field, golf course, and riding trails. His widow, Betty, donated the ranch to California State Parks in 1944 and it is maintained as a state historic park.
Business Block Building
The Business Block is an historic building located between Antioch, Swarthmore and Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Pacific Palisades, designed by architect Clifton Nourse and dedicated in 1924. The two-story building is 30,000 square feet on a 36,000 square foot parcel.
Eames House
Known as Case Study House No. 8, a landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture located at 203 Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades. The house was designed and constructed in 1949 by husband-and-wife design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames to serve as their home and studio.
Castle Rock
Located between Porto Marina and Coastline Drive, Castle Rock rose some fifty feet from the sandy beach and became a cherished local landmark. On June 4, 1945, engineers from the county road department used 350 pounds of dynamite and a bulldozer to reduce the rock's topmost 30 feet to rubble. In a nod to public sentiment, the engineers preserved the rock's base, building a turnout and scenic overlook on its flat top. The viewpoint remains today, but a guardrail blocks access from the highway.
Long Wharf
The Port of Los Angeles Long Wharf is California Historical Landmark site number 881. The plaque is located at the Will Rogers State Beach lifeguard headquarters. The Long Wharf was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and opened in 1894. The wharf was the longest in the world at the time, at just under a mile (4,720 feet). The wharf was used for cargo and passengers, until 1913.
PCH Lighthouse
The Pacific Palisades Lighthouse was built as a bathhouse with a working beacon light in 1927. In the early 1930s the structure, along with the beach property was sold to Will Rogers, who later gave the beach property to the State of California, and renamed the Will Rogers State Beach. The most distinctive feature was the 50-foot-tall lighthouse tower with a functioning beacon powered by eight 500-watt lamps. A replicated structure of the lighthouse currently stands at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Temescal on the south west corner.