“The Birthday House” is officially the first house ever built in Redondo Beach, California. On a normal Redondo Beach street, that used to have little but rolling dunes sits this charming historical home with bright aquas and a quaint interior from the past.
In the late-1800s a carpenter named Micajah Thomas built his home in Redondo Beach: a two-story Queen Anne Victorian with three bedrooms, a parlor, and all the latest trimmings—from a decorative ceiling in the foyer to a second-floor cooling porch flush with lace-web porch supports. This home became known as The Birthday House of Redondo Beach.
Knitting, once an activity of necessity for women and now of leisure, is treated by Karen Damskey—a childhood enthusiast who opened the store in her 20s—as an art, versus a craft.
From a convivial new happy hour at Shade Hotel Manhattan Beach to a new luxury boutique hotel set to open this fall in Redondo Beach, hospitality developer Zislis Group continues to make its mark on the South Bay.
