Manhattan Beach, California
Manhattan Beach is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, on the Pacific coast south of El Segundo, west of Hawthorne and Redondo Beach, and north of Hermosa Beach. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,506.
The Manhattan Beach Pier on a typical fall afternoon
Don Manuel DomÃnguez, owner of Rancho San Pedro, which included modern-day Manhattan Beach
The Manhattan Beach Pier in 2013
Glass home on the "Strand"
El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located on Santa Monica Bay, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and is part of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. The population was 16,731 as of the 2020 census, a 0.5% increase from 16,654 in the 2010 census. A significant center of the oil and aerospace industries in Southern California, roughly three quarters of the city's land is dedicated exclusively to industrial and commercial uses, including a Chevron oil refinery which alone takes up more than a quarter of the entire city.
El Segundo's welcome sign
El Segundo and Standard Oil Refinery, c. 1920
Palisades del Rey, in foreground, and El Segundo in background
Chevron's El Segundo refinery