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unusual facts about Santa Monica, CA



Adrian Klemm

Klemm attended Saint Monica Catholic High School in Santa Monica, California, and was a prep teammate of Marcellus Wiley and was named the Santa Monica athlete of the year as a senior.

BermanBraun

The Santa Monica, CA based company, founded by principals Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun in 2007, has established partnerships with a number of media companies throughout the industry, including NBC Universal Television, AOL, YouTube, Starcom Mediavest and Microsoft.

Betty Eisner

In the 1990s, she maintained a private practice in Santa Monica, California, occasionally publishing articles on psychotherapy and serving on the board of advisors for the Albert Hofmann Foundation.

Bonnie Fisher

Bonnie was the Landscape Principal for the design of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C and the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.

Boots Mallory

She was married to actor Herbert Marshall from 1947 until her death from chronic throat disease at age 45 in Santa Monica, California in 1958.

Brodie Greer

Brodie Greer (born October 26, 1949 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor, best known for his role as Officer Barry "Bear" Baricza on CHiPs.

Charles Alverson

During a break from the WSJ in 1967, he was a "square" (or non-addicted) resident of the anti-drug cult Synanon in Santa Monica, California, for six months.

Craig Montoya

In 1995, the new Everclear released their U.S. debut album, Sparkle and Fade with singles "Heroin Girl," "Heartspark Dollarsign," "You Make Me Feel Like a Whore," and "Santa Monica".

David Boehm

David Boehm (1 February 1893 in New York – 31 July 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an American screenwriter.

Elvia Allman

Elvia Allman (September 19, 1904; Enochville, North Carolina – March 6, 1992; Santa Monica, California) was a character actress and voice over performer in Hollywood films and television programs for over 50 years.

Georgy Ivanov

Santa Monica: Perceval Press, 2011 (bilingual Russian-English edition, 532 pages, ISBN 978-0-9774869-4-6).

Ike Jones

Ike Jones (born December 23, 1929, in Santa Monica, California) is a producer and actor who is perhaps best known for coming forward after the death of actress Inger Stevens with the claim of being her "secret" husband.

J.C. Barthel

He made an application to the city of Santa Monica in July 1922 for lease on a plot of land next to the "new government aviation field on Central Avenue" to establish "an aerial passenger service to San Francisco, by way of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Salinas."

Jackson National Life

The company and its affiliates also have offices in Denver, Colorado; Nashville, Tennessee; Santa Monica, California; Chicago, Illinois; Tampa, Florida; Appleton, Wisconsin; Purchase, New York; and Bismarck, North Dakota.

Jason Kramer

Jason Kramer (born September 13, 1970) is an American radio personality and music supervisor best known for his work with the Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW and music agency, Elias Arts.

Matrixx

matrixx is a production company that specializes in feature film, television and online branded entertainment.The matrixx production offices are located in Santa Monica, California near MTV, Lionsgate, Yahoo! and Universal Music Group.

Matt Tyrnauer

Tyrnauer was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, a college preparatory school in the city of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County in California, followed by the Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts college n the city of Middletown in Middlesex County in the State of Connecticut, in the United States.

Mili Mili World Music

Mili Mili has performed live at events in and around Southern California, including the Long Beach Carnival, Hollywood Palladium Brazilian Nights, World Beat Center Earth Day Celebration in San Diego, the MGM Grand Las Vegas, the Temple Bar, BB King's, Beverly Hills Film Festival, Hard Rock Cafe, the Irvine Global Village Festival, and the Levitt Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Music Lust

Music Lust: Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason is a book written by Nic Harcourt, the music director for the Santa Monica, California, radio station KCRW.

Patricia McQueeney

Patricia Noonan McQueeney (born Bridgeport, Connecticut, September 16, 1927; died Santa Monica, California September 4, 2005) was an American actress, television personality, and talent agent perhaps best known as Harrison Ford's manager.

Peruvian prison massacres

The Peruvian prison massacres occurred on June 18–19, 1986, after a series of riots in the San Pedro, Santa Mónica, and El Frontón prisons in Lima and Callao.

R. Hyrum Savage

He grew up in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica where he attended Venice High School, Santa Monica College, and for a short period of time, Pepperdine University.

Santa Monica neighborhoods

San Vicente Boulevard is the northernmost major street in Santa Monica.The streets North of San Vicente are generally considered a subsection of the North of Montana neighborhood, but distinguished because of La Mesa Drive.

San Vicente Boulevard is the northernmost major street in Santa Monica.The streets north of San Vicente are generally considered a subsection of the North of Montana neighborhood, but distinguished because of La Mesa Drive.

Skip Engblom

Skip Engblom (born January 4, 1948) is one of the co-founders of the Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions Surf Shop in Santa Monica, California.

Engblom and the The Z-Boys frequented a locals only surf spot named "The Cove," which was located at Pacific Ocean Park, in Santa Monica, California, which later burned to the ground.

Tennis Channel

Founded in 2003 and based in Santa Monica, CA, the network is owned by a group of investors including sports marketing firm IMG, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. The network's CEO is Ken Solomon.

The Spot

The Spot was likened to "Melrose Place-on-the-Web" and featured a rotating cast of attractive actors playing trendy and hip twenty somethings who rented rooms in a fabled southern California beach house called “The Spot”, in Santa Monica, California.

To the Point

To the Point is an hour-long public affairs radio program co-produced by KCRW in Santa Monica, California and Public Radio International.

U.S. Route 66 in Kansas

U.S. Route 66, the historic US highway between Chicago, Illinois and Santa Monica, California, passed through one brief segment in the southeastern corner of Kansas.

West Adams, Los Angeles

In the 1950s, the construction of the Harbor Freeway destroyed many large homes on the east side of West Adams, while the 1960s construction of the Santa Monica Freeway completely obliterated Berkeley Square, which held significant houses designed by Elmer Grey, and bisected West Adams Heights.


see also

CaseStack

Besides the Santa Monica, CA office the Company also has a regional office in Fayetteville, Arkansas near Walmart’s headquarters, offsite locations in Manila and India, and American Institute of Baking food certified warehouses in Portland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Scranton.

J*Davey

The duo have performed in sold-out venues at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA and the Temple Bar in Santa Monica, CA.

Lovedrug

The band's third album, The Sucker Punch Show, was made with iconic 90's rock producer Michael Beinhorn (Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mew) at the Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica, CA.

Revolution in Military Affairs

Arquilla, John and David F. Ronfeldt (eds.), In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica, CA, RAND Corporation, 1997 ISBN 0-8330-2514-7

The Constellations

Following their 2010 debut Southern Gothic they signed with Santa Monica, CA based 429 Records and released an EP titled 'Sold Out' March 20, 2012 as an appetizer to their second full length album Do It for Free slated for a June 12, 2012 worldwide release.