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New pictures of 3336 Via Lido!

I’ve had a few more pictures taken of my listing at 3336 Via Lido, off the Newport Harbor. It was such a beautiful day when they were taken–and they turned out wonderful! Here’s just one of the many new photos for this listing:

Balboa Island – dredging and property

A look back to Balboa Island in 1928, from Jeff Delaney’s book Newport Beach: In 1906, W. S. Collins commenced a dredging operation, partially completed by 1910, at which time a sucesion of subdivision map filings began. Prior to the dredging, the island was largely overflowed swamp land and mostly underwater at high tide. It [...]

Balboa Peninsula before homes

Before there were many homes on Balboa Peninsula, this is what it looked like in 1922: In 1923, a syndicate of Pasadena men purchased all of the land on the easterly extreme of the peninsula from Edna Ferguson, the widow of Joe Ferguson. The property was then subdivided, a map filed in May 1923, and [...]