Years ago, the predecessor of the PCH passed through one of nature's rarest formations, and arched rock then known simply enough the Arch Rock of Malibu. Today, no clue remains as to it's existence. According to the Santa Monica Library site (which hosts this mirrored image of the arch) the Malibu Arch was at the present site of the Chart House Resataurant, which is just south of Topanga Canyon on the PCH.
The Arch Rock of Malibu
Castle Rock of Castlemare
The Japanese Gardens
 The Japanese Garden of Santa Monica were a popular tourist destination in the early part of the 20th century. It was built by a German named Adolph Bernheimer. While it was a showplace of both horticultural and design proir to World War II, the Japanese Garden built by the German guy was not so popular during the war, and various reports of vandalism and theft were reported before Adolf himself - the owner not the Hitler - kicked off in 1944. |
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In the early part of the 20th century, before it tangled with the CA-DOT, Castle Rock was one of several tourist attractions touted along the Santa Monica Bay coast. Today an elite neighborhood of estates looking over the seaside and the beautiful Pacific Pallisades sunsets, Castlemarre was originally built as a subdivision of fancy seaside Italian villias, complete with a series of stairways, sidewalks and a bridge over the PCH, which was a paltry 25 feet wide at the time, but a treacherous crossing nonetheless!.