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South Bay History: Gardena Buddhist church has endured for nearly 100 years despite challenges
The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...
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South Bay History: William Howard Taft was the 1st U.S. president to visit San Pedro
A little less than a year after being elected the 27th president of the United States in 1908, William Howard Taft planned an ...
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South Bay History: Gardena Buddhist church has endured for nearly 100 years despite challenges
Five months later, John Alden Stieber, a 47-year-old handyman with a history of mental illness turned himself in to Gardena police. He was deemed responsible for setting fires at seven South Bay ...