Hollywood Riviera, Redondo Beach – “The Last Close-In Beach Suitable for Development”

Posted on January 21, 2015 by

Hollywood Riviera, Redondo Beach - “The Last Close-In Beach Suitable for Development”The Hollywood Riviera – “The Last Close-In Beach Suitable for Development.” was a development that was started around the southern end of Redondo Beach in the late 1920s, which back then would have been a bit of a trek for Angelenos, most of whom lived closer to downtown L.A. I’d never heard of this development so I looked it up and found there was a Hollywood Riviera Beach Club, which opened in the early 1930s until 1958 when it caught fire.

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2 responses to “Hollywood Riviera, Redondo Beach – “The Last Close-In Beach Suitable for Development””

  1. Al Donnelly says:
    December 17, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    Surviving stairs (white) for the beach club are seen as the background in “Lifeguard” (1975/6) starring Sam Elliott (about 31-32 years old then) to the east of his tower station. Apparently the descriptive area name RAT was locally applied to describe “Right After Torrance”.

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  2. Al Donnelly says:
    January 23, 2023 at 12:15 pm

    PERyHistorical Society image of red car near end-of-line beyond Redondo at Clifton-by-the-Sea area. (Trainman is throwing manual switch so car can cross to inbound track where poles will be reversed for trip back to Vineyard as the dash sign indicates this is a local train. Date is 1940.) Clifton was an early development by Huntington at the northern edge of what would arise as the Hollywood Riviera project. The Redondo line was extended out to this point on Catalina as a result. Might call this another border between the trolley car epoque and the automobile age: https://www.pacificelectric.org/pacific-electric/western-district/redondo-beach-end-of-the-line/

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