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5 unusual facts about Monterey Park


Brawley Guitars

Some Southern California stores such as Johnny Thompson Music in Monterey Park showed great success with Brawley instruments, including Costa Mesa's "Cobra Music".

Janet Dykman

Adrienne ("Janet") Cornelia Dykman (born January 17, 1954 in Monterey Park, California) is an American archer.

Monterey Park, Calgary

It was named for the city of Monterey Park, California, and the neighbourhood has a California theme (such as street names and building styles).

Roger H. Chen

By 1988, Chen then convinced Taiwanese investors to construct a retail complex that was able to accommodate restaurants and stores and as well as a 36,000-square foot supermarket in Rowland Heights, a suburb that was located in the Eastern part of Rowland Heights, where the suburb was located east of the well-known Chinese American community of Monterey Park.

World Journal

On January 10, 2007, a Southern California jury found the Monterey Park-based Chinese Daily News responsible for failing to give employees breaks, lunches, and overtime, and awarded the plaintiffs $2.5 million.


Interstate 710

Legislative Route 167 was defined in 1933 to run from San Pedro east to Long Beach and north to Monterey Park.


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Frederic Hsieh

In the early 1970s, he predicted that the then-predominantly Caucasian city of Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley would serve as an anchor for new ethnic Chinese immigrants as an alternative to the old Chinatown in Los Angeles, but it was immediately dismissed and brushed off as mere speculation at the time.