Walking Tour of Historic Old Torrance

The free docent-led Walking Tour of Historic Old Torrance begins at the Torrance Historical Society & Museum and will point-out many historic sites, and landmarks, and share secret tidbits of info about Old Torrance (founded 1912) that you would most likely not know about unless you were on this tour!

You will also learn . . .

• About the explosion that helped put Torrance on the map
• Why Irving Gill, architect of the Pacific Electric Railway El Prado Bridge and the Depot, was fired
• Where the original Police and Fire Station were located (they used to share a building, and a car!)
• Why Torrance does not have a cemetery
• What TV character "lived" on Cota

And . . . the Tour will include information regarding the world renown landscape architectural firm of Olmsted & Sons, John C., and Frederick Law, Jr. of Brookline MA, who designed the City of Torrance. Plus, you’ll learn how the city, and some of the streets in Downtown, got their name; where the first public library originated; the original boundaries of the city, where Oz from, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, turned into a werewolf and more!

The tour is an easy, but brisk walk covering eight blocks, and lasts approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes -- comfortable walking shoes are recommended.

The Tour conveniently ends at lunchtime, so you can walk downtown and dine in a historic building!

 

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Location

Torrance Historical Society & Museum, 1345 Post Ave., Torrance, CA, 90501, View Map