34.0783° N 118.5463° W
Pacific Palisades
Founded in 1922 as a Methodist retreat on the bluffs. Rebuilding after the 2025 fire across the Huntington, the Riviera, Castellammare and the Alphabet Streets.
History
How Pacific Palisades came to be.
- 1911
Thomas Ince builds Inceville, a 460-acre film studio at the mouth of Santa Ynez Canyon.
- 1922
Reverend Charles H. Scott founds Pacific Palisades as a Methodist community.
- 1930s
German exiles including Thomas Mann and Lion Feuchtwanger settle here, a circle later called 'Weimar by the Sea.'
- 1949
Charles and Ray Eames build their Case Study house above the ocean.
- 2025
The Palisades Fire destroys thousands of homes, and the community begins to rebuild.
Points of interest
Places that define Pacific Palisades
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Fun facts
Things even locals forget
Weimar by the Sea.
German writers and composers fleeing the Nazis made the Palisades their home in the 1930s and 40s.
Wild parrots.
Flocks descended from escaped pets live in the canyon sycamores.
Named for New Jersey.
The Palisades take their name from the cliffs along the Hudson River.
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