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Three Arch Bay is a 29-acre private gated community located at the southern end of Laguna Beach, California. The community features some oceanfront homes with swimming pools built into the intertidal rocks which are replenished by the incoming tides.
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History
According to a letter of Dana Point developer Sidney Woodruff, the entire 29 acre site was purchased in 1926 for $135,000.
The first rock pool was created in 1929 by film producer Edward H. Griffith. Griffith built his property, which included a lighthouse, for use as a backdrop in feature films. Early movies filmed in Three Arch Bay included Warner Bros.' Captain Blood (1935) starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, and Paramount Pictures' Give Us This Night (1936).
By 1939 lots in the area were sold for $100 down on a $3000 lot. The original sales promotional ad's warned of "Rattlesnakes Galore". In 1943, at the height of WW2, a boat engulfed in flame drifted around the rocks at the south end of the Bay and toward Bird Rock, followed closely by a Coast Guard vessel.