![]() ![]() He first bought 30 acres adjoining the cove from Fred Roberts and subsequently bought the adjoining 40 acres from Bill Swanson assembling the Cove in the configuration that it is today.ĭuring the late 50’s and early 60’s, Malibu was a kick back beach community. Bob Morris’ father, Joe Morris, assembled about 70 acres, paying from $3,500 to $ 25,000 an acre. So the saying goes… “What comes around, goes around.” Some fifty odd years ago, the Morris family owned Paradise Cove. Further plans were halted by WWII and they sold to Bill Swanson in 1945. They built a Club House which became the Sandcastle and now the Paradise Cove Beach Cafe. The Paradise Cove lower section was purchased by Frank Wilson and Al Camp. Sometime in the 1940’s, in order to defray the huge costs of her fight with the railroad and the state, the Rindge family sold parcels of land in a subdivision. The Rindge family was later caught up in a bitter battle to fight the construction of the Pacific Coast Highway as it is known today. For a time this railway was primarily used to transport hides and grains from the Rindge ranch operations to their private pier which is now the Malibu Pier. There were 15 miles of tracks called the Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway. In order to stop the railroad from coming through their land, the Rindge family built their own private railroad through the property to keep the big company out. They got into a fight with the state of California who wanted to construct the Southern Pacific Railroad right through their property. ![]() As time went by Paradise Cove became part of the Marblehead Land Company which was owned by the Rindge family. Many of the founding fathers of California’s Chinese community were smuggled ashore here in the late 1800’s when it was known as Smugglers Cove. Located on land that was once part of the Spanish land grant, it was the beach home of the Chumash Indian tribe and is the final resting place of many of their ancestors. Paradise Cove has always been a magical private beach destination.
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