Visible behind is the old Richfield Tower and Motorcycle Hill. It was located at the northwest corner of the beach by the creek which now flows between the County parking lot and Doheny horseshoe pitch. Nothing better than a greasy burger, fries, a root beer float and sand under your feet! Lorrin Harrison Jr., Ron Sizemore, Marion Harrison (wearing the hat) and in back, Tracy Sizemore. “HANG’N AT THE DOH WITH MY BEACH BUDDIES,” CIRCA 1950 Photos courtesy of the California State Parks. Only one feature of the CCC work remains at the park today – a plastered and tiled adobe entryway and wall along Coast Highway (near the entrance to the camp ground). By 1940, CCC workers had constructed picnic areas, campgrounds, parking lots, and a custodian’s lodge at Doheny SB. (CCC), a “New Deal” program under the Franklin Roosevelt administration. Leyde Dana Point Rock, surveying land for Doheny State Park!!! **************************************************ĭoheny and San Cemente state beaches were build by the Civilian Conservation Corp. Looking at what would become the South Day Use area of Doheny, also known as “Hole in the Fence”. View towards Dana Point Headlands from Doheny in 1928. The pier is where today’s South Day Use area ends and the county parking lot begins. These structures are now long gone, but great stories about them live on. The pier and the Capistrano Beach Clubhouse in the distance were built by Ned Doheny for his development of Capistrano Beach estates, a town he hoped would rival and surpass in prestige, the developing village of San Clemente to the south. Looking southeast, across Roosevelt Highway (Pacific Coast Hwy.), the Dana Villa and the empty land that would become Doheny State Beach. Photo from “Sons and Daughters of Capistrano Valley,” Facebook. Additional land was donated or otherwise obtained from Santa Fe Railroad, the University of California Regents, and the Union Oil Company. Doheny in memory of his son, “Ned”, killed in a tragic and mysterious shooting at his mansion in Beverly Hills. Much of the land that makes up the park was donated to the State in May of 1931 for public use by oil tycoon Edward L. This photo, looking west up the Roosevelt Highway (today’s Pacific Coast Hwy.), was taken in the 1920s before there was a Doheny State Beach. The photo shows the pavilion which appears to be located near the current outfall of San Juan Creek. The Santa Fe Rail Road added train tracks from their station in San Juan Capistrano down to the beach and brought in many perspective buyers to enjoy a day on the shore at the pavilion on what is now Doheny State Beach. In 1887, the part of Dana Point now known as Capistrano Beach was being developed into what would be the unsuccessful village of San Juan by the Sea. DOHENY BEFORE IT BELONGED TO THE DOHENY FAMILY
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