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COOKBOOKS NOW AVAILABLE!
The Redondo Beach Historical Society presents our keepsake cookbook featuring 194 recipes from family and friends, tidbits of Redondo history, and several historic photos.
Cookbooks are available at the Morrell House on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4:00.
The Cookbooks are $10.00
  FROM OUR NEWSLETTER
Salt and Power
Today, Redondo's biggest draw for residents and tourists is its beautiful harbor with sweeping ocean and mountain vistas. But there was a time when our city had another draw for its early inhabitants and visitors - one of history's largest economic commodities, salt.
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  PRESIDENT'S REPORT
Celebrate The Porch
Webster defines porch as "a covered area adjoining an entrance to a building and usually having a separate roof". It is a place of protection from the sun and rain. Typically its unified with the rest of the house architecturally by using similar design elements as the rest of the structure and may be integrated into the roofline or upper stories. Many Redondo Beach homes, especially the Craftsman and Victorian homes from the late 1890's to the mid-1920's, featured large front porches.
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