June
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Adventure City
Aquarium Night
July
Seal Beach
Origami Festival/CSULB
La Mirada Splash
August
Sacramento
Westminster Splash Pad
Rancho Los Alamitos
Seal Beach
September
LA County Fair
Not Back To School Beach Party
JPL
NHM
October
Riley's Farm
La Brea Tarpits
McDonald's
November
Northrop
Banning Museum
Golden Gate Bridge
December
Disneyland
Decorate Rose Parade float
January
Gene Autry Museum
Bembridge House
Reagan Library
February
El Dorado Nature Center
Studio Tour
Columbia Memorial Museum
March
Father Serra at Rancho Dominguez
Microsoft Store
Paley Museum
April
Olvera Street/Mexican-American Museum
Apple Store
Science Learning Center - CSULB
May
Irvine Park Railroad
Yosemite/Redwoods
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
California - Los Angeles - Long Beach History
10,000 yrs ago - people arrived in California from the north - La Brea Tarpits (look for indian village museum)
500 - Tongya people arrive in Long Beach - find out if the El Dorado Nature Center has a Native American program for 4th graders - (562) 570-1745 - Natural History Museum - New Dinosaur Hall - setup field trip for August - Gene Autry Museum
1492 - Columbus arrived in the New World
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabillo landed at San Pedro - first exploration of CA coastline
Los Angeles - remote outpost of the Spanish Empire
1683-1834: El Camino Real - the 600-mile (966-kilometer) California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions (along with a number of support sites), 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego in the south to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma in the north.
1769 - Gaspar de Portola established the Presidio in San Diego & Father Serra starts the first Mission - Mission San Juan Capistrano - Father Serra program at Rancho Dominguez
1774 - Juan Bautista de Anza crossed the Colorado River at Yuma, Anza's party trekked through the Sonoran Desert and discovered the first inland gateway to the Southern California coast: San Carlos Pass, which bisects the San Jacinto Mountains - Audio - Trail guide
1776 - US War for Independence
1777 - 44 colonists known as Los Pobladores followed Anza's trail on their way to settling the new pueblo of Los Angeles
1784 - Los Angeles is founded: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles Sobre El Rio Porciuncula - Olvera Street - Mexican-American Museum - Manuel Nieto received a 300,000 acre land grant from Spain called Los Coyotes
1829 to 1850 - Old Spanish Trail - Led from Los Angeles to Santa Fe, NM - Old Spanish Trail Association
1834: Los Coyotes was subdivided into five great ranchos
1846: The Battle of Dominguez Hill; Mexico won
1846-1848: Mexican-American War after US took Texas; Mexico sold California, New Mexico, Arizona, & Texas to the US
1849 - gold is discovered at Sutter Mill - Ghiradelli arrived to make his fortune - LA County Fair Heritage Square - Irvine Park Railroad 4th Grade Program - Riley's Farm
1850 - California becomes a state - Sacramento - Ranchos - Rancho Los Cerritos - Rancho Los Alamitos is the largest cattle ranch in America
1860 - Civil War
1864 - Banning Museum
1868 - Transcontinental Railroad - Connected San Francisco to Chicago
1888 - Long Beach is incorporated as a city
1890 - First Rose Parade in Pasadena - go to parade? - January 1st, 2012 - help decorate floats?
1900 - Agriculture - Central Valley
1902 - First Rose Bowl game - Pasadena - Ford Motor Co. - oil
1906 - The Bembridge House is a magnificent and highly ornate example of late Queen Anne Victorian architecture, and both the exterior and interior exemplify the finest accomplishments of turn-of-the-century architectural designers and craftsmen
1920 - Wright Brothers - movies - studio tour - Academy Museum
1930 - Empire State Building - migrant labor
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge - US Naval Base in Long Beach
1940 - Bugs Bunny cartoon - Douglas Aircraft - first freeway
1947 - Studebaker car - Jackson Pollock - Spruce Goose - test pilots (Yeager) - Mojave
1949 - CSULB founded
1953 - Our house was built - TV (I Love Lucy) - Paley Museum of TV
1955 - Disneyland - McDonald's
1964 - The Beatles arrive in the US
1969 - First moom landing - JPL 9/16 - Northrop Grumman tour
1970 - First Earth Day - Yosemite - Redwoods
1975 - Microsoft was founded - Microsoft store
1980 - Reagan elected President - Library in Simi Valley
1981 - Space Shuttle - Columbia Memorial Museum
2000 - Internet - Apple store
500 - Tongya people arrive in Long Beach - find out if the El Dorado Nature Center has a Native American program for 4th graders - (562) 570-1745 - Natural History Museum - New Dinosaur Hall - setup field trip for August - Gene Autry Museum
1492 - Columbus arrived in the New World
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabillo landed at San Pedro - first exploration of CA coastline
Los Angeles - remote outpost of the Spanish Empire
1683-1834: El Camino Real - the 600-mile (966-kilometer) California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions (along with a number of support sites), 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego in the south to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma in the north.
1769 - Gaspar de Portola established the Presidio in San Diego & Father Serra starts the first Mission - Mission San Juan Capistrano - Father Serra program at Rancho Dominguez
1774 - Juan Bautista de Anza crossed the Colorado River at Yuma, Anza's party trekked through the Sonoran Desert and discovered the first inland gateway to the Southern California coast: San Carlos Pass, which bisects the San Jacinto Mountains - Audio - Trail guide
1776 - US War for Independence
1777 - 44 colonists known as Los Pobladores followed Anza's trail on their way to settling the new pueblo of Los Angeles
1784 - Los Angeles is founded: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles Sobre El Rio Porciuncula - Olvera Street - Mexican-American Museum - Manuel Nieto received a 300,000 acre land grant from Spain called Los Coyotes
1829 to 1850 - Old Spanish Trail - Led from Los Angeles to Santa Fe, NM - Old Spanish Trail Association
1834: Los Coyotes was subdivided into five great ranchos
1846: The Battle of Dominguez Hill; Mexico won
1846-1848: Mexican-American War after US took Texas; Mexico sold California, New Mexico, Arizona, & Texas to the US
1849 - gold is discovered at Sutter Mill - Ghiradelli arrived to make his fortune - LA County Fair Heritage Square - Irvine Park Railroad 4th Grade Program - Riley's Farm
1850 - California becomes a state - Sacramento - Ranchos - Rancho Los Cerritos - Rancho Los Alamitos is the largest cattle ranch in America
1860 - Civil War
1864 - Banning Museum
1868 - Transcontinental Railroad - Connected San Francisco to Chicago
1888 - Long Beach is incorporated as a city
1890 - First Rose Parade in Pasadena - go to parade? - January 1st, 2012 - help decorate floats?
1900 - Agriculture - Central Valley
1902 - First Rose Bowl game - Pasadena - Ford Motor Co. - oil
1906 - The Bembridge House is a magnificent and highly ornate example of late Queen Anne Victorian architecture, and both the exterior and interior exemplify the finest accomplishments of turn-of-the-century architectural designers and craftsmen
1920 - Wright Brothers - movies - studio tour - Academy Museum
1930 - Empire State Building - migrant labor
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge - US Naval Base in Long Beach
1940 - Bugs Bunny cartoon - Douglas Aircraft - first freeway
1947 - Studebaker car - Jackson Pollock - Spruce Goose - test pilots (Yeager) - Mojave
1949 - CSULB founded
1953 - Our house was built - TV (I Love Lucy) - Paley Museum of TV
1955 - Disneyland - McDonald's
1964 - The Beatles arrive in the US
1969 - First moom landing - JPL 9/16 - Northrop Grumman tour
1970 - First Earth Day - Yosemite - Redwoods
1975 - Microsoft was founded - Microsoft store
1980 - Reagan elected President - Library in Simi Valley
1981 - Space Shuttle - Columbia Memorial Museum
2000 - Internet - Apple store
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