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28-647: The Upper Club, includes an ocean view and on-site accommodations available for private parties. The interior of the Bel-Air Bay Club Upper Club includes large windows, a fireplace, and iron chandeliers. The Bel-Air Bay Club is primarily used as a wedding, social, and corporate event venue. Located in Pacific Palisades, the Bel-Air Bay Club was financed by one of the most well known developers of Los Angeles, Alphonzo Bell . Establishment of this club

56-523: A native of Kansas. Bell's son, Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. , later served eight terms as a California Congressman. Bell's daughter, Minnewa Bell Gray Burnside Ross, married Elliott Roosevelt , son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt , in 1951. While in college the senior Bell was Inter-Collegiate Tennis Champion, and later Pacific Coast Tennis Champion , who at one time earned national rankings of fifth in singles and eighth in doubles. Known for his "net-rusher" style, Bell went on to win two medals in tennis at

84-407: A religious medium. It is often considered a spiritually purifying agent and is used for anointing purposes. As a particular example, holy anointing oil has been an important ritual liquid for Judaism and Christianity . Oils have been consumed since ancient times. Oils hold lots of fats and medical properties. A good example is olive oil. Olive oil holds a lot of fats within it which is why it

112-502: A showplace 42-room house on 1,760 acres (710 ha) in portions of the areas that are now Bel Air and Pacific Palisades which they called Capo Di Monte (Italian for "Top of the Hill"). Today nothing of the house remains, except for some of the terraced gardens and rock walls, and their former horse riding stables, which now constitute a portion of the Bel-Air Hotel – with what was once

140-438: A visionary real estate developer, anticipating the influx of Hollywood elite and other wealthy residents who would be lured by the burgeoning film industry. In 1922, building on over 600 acres (2.4 km ) that he had acquired, Bell founded Bel Air Estates , an exclusive and upscale neighborhood now known as Bel-Air , enhancing the surrounding area with lush vegetation, new roads, and utilities; designed, laid out and developed

168-520: Is a country club style wedding venue providing all-inclusive wedding accommodations to parties between 50-400 people in size. It also provides onsite wedding consultant services, catering, and valet parking to venue attendees. Wedding dates can be reserved between 3–18 months in advance, with weekend dates typically requiring the most advanced notice. Wedding arrangements can be customized to customer preferences, including food/beverage selection, event timeline, and preferred floor plan. A full-day buyout option

196-479: Is also available to parties who are planning time-intensive events. Bel-Air Bay Club is a Southern California, 1920's Mediterranean style mansion with various gardens and an ocean view. The venue's cliffside lawn with the ocean view is one of the common locations where couples choose to hold their wedding ceremonies. An outdoor Spanish-style courtyard patio is commonly used for receptions because of its fountain, fireplace, and lights. The venue's luxury-style Living Room

224-476: Is also commonly used for receptions and event gatherings. Executive chef Peter Edwards, who has 20+ years of 'progressive' culinary experience, customizes and provides unique menus to venue attendees. Alphonzo Bell Alphonzo Edward Bell Sr. (September 29, 1875 – December 27, 1947) was an American oil multi-millionaire, real estate developer, philanthropist, and champion tennis player. The westside Los Angeles residential community of Bel Air

252-523: Is named after him, as well as the Southern California communities of Bell and Bell Gardens . Bell was a native and lifelong resident of Los Angeles, whose family had deep financial and historical ties to the area, and played a key role in the history and development of Southern California. He was the son of James George Bell , who established Bell Station Ranch (now the site of the City of Bell ), in

280-1202: Is no evidence that NASA has used whale oil. Some oils burn in liquid or aerosol form, generating light , and heat which can be used directly or converted into other forms of energy such as electricity or mechanical work. In order to obtain many fuel oils, crude oil is pumped from the ground and is shipped via oil tanker or a pipeline to an oil refinery . There, it is converted from crude oil to diesel fuel (petrodiesel), ethane (and other short-chain alkanes ), fuel oils (heaviest of commercial fuels, used in ships/furnaces), gasoline (petrol), jet fuel , kerosene , benzene (historically), and liquefied petroleum gas . A 42-US-gallon (35 imp gal; 160 L) barrel of crude oil produces approximately 10 US gallons (8.3 imp gal; 38 L) of diesel, 4 US gallons (3.3 imp gal; 15 L) of jet fuel, 19 US gallons (16 imp gal; 72 L) of gasoline, 7 US gallons (5.8 imp gal; 26 L) of other products, 3 US gallons (2.5 imp gal; 11 L) split between heavy fuel oil and liquified petroleum gases, and 2 US gallons (1.7 imp gal; 7.6 L) of heating oil. The total production of

308-622: Is preferred for lubricating clocks, because it does not evaporate, leaving dust, although its use was banned in the US in 1980. It is a long-running myth that spermaceti from whales has still been used in NASA projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probe because of its extremely low freezing temperature. Spermaceti is not actually an oil, but a mixture mostly of wax esters, and there

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336-465: Is remote (and was unknown at the time of its discovery), and because it is obtained in the vicinity of rocks, underground traps, and sands. Mineral oil also refers to several specific distillates of crude oil. Several edible vegetable and animal oils, and also fats , are used for various purposes in cooking and food preparation. In particular, many foods are fried in oil much hotter than boiling water. Oils are also used for flavoring and for modifying

364-673: The 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis – a bronze in the men's singles event, and a silver in the men's doubles tournament, partnering with Robert LeRoy . After striking oil on their ranch at Santa Fe Springs, Bell entered the oil business with his father in the early 1920s, establishing the Bell Petroleum Co., and developing what became one of the richest oil fields in California. With the ensuing California oil boom, or " black-gold " rush, competition from various less scrupulous large oil companies

392-598: The Bel-Air Country Club and the Bel Air Bay Club; The Riviera Country Club also owes its inception to Bell*. According to Claude Wayne, Bell went to see the late Frank Garbutt of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and told him that he would give the land free if Garbutt would build the club.(*Alphonzo E. Bell: a Biography by John O Pohlmann ) While many such clubs thrived on sales of bootleg liquor during

420-696: The Santa Fe Springs area in 1875, and of Susan Albiah Hollenbeck. His uncle, Ed Hollenbeck , who arrived in California in the 1850s, founded the First National Bank, created Los Angeles's public transportation trolley system, and developed eastern portions of Los Angeles County. After attending Occidental College , which had been founded by his father in 1887, and graduating at the top of his class as valedictorian in 1895, Bell enrolled at San Anselmo Presbyterian College for two years (he did not return for 3rd year). In 1902 he married Minnewa Shoemaker Bell,

448-567: The Bell stable's manure barn, now one of the favorite celebrity guest suites. In 1926, Bell provided land in Bel Air to the proposed location of UCLA in Westwood. The deeds for the land granted to the university had strict racial provisions and dictated: 5. That neither the whole nor any part of said premises shall be sold, rented or leased to any person of Ethiopian, Chinese or Japanese descent, nor shall

476-936: The L.A. Presbyterian Church , and other church groups and charitable organizations. Today, he is honored by memorial tributes to him at – among others – Occidental College , UCLA , and the Bel-Air Country Club . Oil An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water ) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active . Most oils are unsaturated lipids that are liquid at room temperature. The general definition of oil includes classes of chemical compounds that may be otherwise unrelated in structure, properties, and uses. Oils may be animal , vegetable , or petrochemical in origin, and may be volatile or non-volatile. They are used for food (e.g., olive oil ), fuel (e.g., heating oil ), medical purposes (e.g., mineral oil ), lubrication (e.g. motor oil ), and

504-896: The excess grime and creating a layer where new grime could form but be easily washed off in the water as oil is hydrophobic. Fish oils hold the omega-3 fatty acid. This fatty acid helps with inflammation and reduces fat in the bloodstream.   Color pigments are easily suspended in oil, making it suitable as a supporting medium for paints . The oldest known extant oil paintings date from 650 AD. Oils are used as coolants in oil cooling , for instance in electric transformers . Heat transfer oils are used both as coolants (see oil cooling ), for heating (e.g. in oil heaters ) and in other applications of heat transfer. Given that they are non-polar, oils do not easily adhere to other substances. This makes them useful as lubricants for various engineering purposes. Mineral oils are more commonly used as machine lubricants than biological oils are. Whale oil

532-542: The manufacture of many types of paints, plastics, and other materials. Specially prepared oils are used in some religious ceremonies and rituals as purifying agents. First attested in English 1176, the word oil comes from Old French oile , from Latin oleum , which in turn comes from the Greek ἔλαιον ( elaion ), "olive oil, oil" and that from ἐλαία ( elaia ), " olive tree", "olive fruit". The earliest attested forms of

560-412: The modern economy. Crude oil originates from ancient fossilized organic materials , such as zooplankton and algae , which geochemical processes convert into oil. The name "mineral oil" is a misnomer , in that minerals are not the source of the oil—ancient plants and animals are. Mineral oil is organic. However, it is classified as "mineral oil" instead of as "organic oil" because its organic origin

588-539: The same be occupied by any such person excepting as a professor or instructor of the University of California or a member of his family, excepting also as a servant or employee of the person using said premises exclusively for residential purposes. Throughout his lifetime, and just prior to his death in 1947, as well as in his will, Alphozo Bell Sr. gave the larger share of his wealth to various charities – including Occidental College , University of California, Los Angeles ,

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616-399: The texture of foods (e.g. stir fry ). Cooking oils are derived either from animal fat, as butter , lard and other types, or plant oils from olive , maize , sunflower and many other species. Oils are applied to hair to give it a lustrous look, to prevent tangles and roughness and to stabilize the hair to promote growth. See hair conditioner . Oil has been used throughout history as

644-533: The way that they are made by an organism, their chemical structure and their limited solubility in water compared to oils. They have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are considerably lacking in oxygen compared to other organic compounds and minerals; they tend to be relatively nonpolar molecules, but may include both polar and nonpolar regions as in the case of phospholipids and steroids. Crude oil, or petroleum , and its refined components, collectively termed petrochemicals , are crucial resources in

672-775: The word are the Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀺 , e-ra-wo and 𐀁𐁉𐀺 , e-rai-wo , written in the Linear B syllabic script. Organic oils are produced in remarkable diversity by plants, animals, and other organisms through natural metabolic processes. Lipid is the scientific term for the fatty acids , steroids and similar chemicals often found in the oils produced by living things, while oil refers to an overall mixture of chemicals. Organic oils may also contain chemicals other than lipids, including proteins , waxes (class of compounds with oil-like properties that are solid at common temperatures) and alkaloids . Lipids can be classified by

700-461: The years of Prohibition, Bell refused to allow the sale of illegal spirits in any of his clubs or establishments, which lost him some membership. William Randolph Hearst's longstanding vendetta with Bell had started when Bell refused to sell a homesite to Hearst for a home to house his silent-film-star mistress, Marion Davies in Bell's Bel-Air Estates development. For themselves and their young extended family, Bell and his wife Minnewa in 1921 built

728-419: Was also used in lighting in ancient Greece and Rome. So people would use it to bulk out food so they would have more energy to burn through the day. Olive oil was also used to clean the body in this time as it would trap the moisture in the skin while pulling the grime to the surface. It was used as an ancient form of unsophisticated soap. It was applied on the skin then scrubbed off with a wooden stick pulling off

756-604: Was fierce—several of whom, along with William Randolph Hearst , tried to drive the more honest Bell's smaller operation out of business—a saga documented in the fictionalized account by writer Upton Sinclair in a 1927 novel Oil! , also the basis for the 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood . Bell, known for his almost puritanical morality and honesty, used portions of his initial profits to develop upscale real estate communities in West Los Angeles, including parts of Westwood , Beverly Hills , and Pacific Palisades . He became

784-594: Was part of a larger real estate project which contributed to the founding of the town of Bel Air, Los Angeles . Officially incorporated on 2 June 1927, the modern Bel-Air Bay Club exists as two separate facilities, divided by the Pacific Coast Highway . Bell designed the Upper Bel-Air Bay Club clubhouse specifically so visitors would have a view of the Los Angeles coastline. Bel-Air Bay Club (Upper Club)

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