Browse Redondo Beach People Directories

Redondo Beach Directory Landscape

People directories serving Redondo Beach differ in both scope and access. The city list routes readers to departments and elected offices. School and college pages identify educators and staff. County filings connect names with businesses or recorded property documents. State systems cover licensed professionals and personnel offices. For someone who lived here years ago, the most useful directory may be a city volume, yearbook, or newspaper collection kept by the Redondo Beach Public Library.

Choose by relationship, not by how broad a list seems. A city role points to the department directory. A known school points to staff pages or yearbooks. A trade or profession may lead to a state license record. An old address is better tested against the library's city directories and county parcel sources. Official lists also have firm limits: a directory can be current but narrow, public but office-only, or available only for an authorized purpose.

Redondo Beach Government Directory Entries

The Redondo Beach Department Directory is organized by office and service rather than by employee surname. It lists City Attorney, City Clerk, City Council and Mayor, City Manager, City Treasurer, Community Development, Fire, Library, Police, Public Works, and other city functions. Phone numbers appear for each service, while some rows include a shared email. Department pages may then name an official or director.

Department or office

The city unit, elected office, or public service.

Phone

A department line or service number.

Email

A shared address where the city publishes one.

Linked page

The office page with duties and added contacts.

Named person

Sometimes shown on the linked department page.

A sample City Clerk entry supplies the office name, a phone number, and a link to the clerk page. The linked page names the clerk and gives direct contact details. When a person is not shown, call the listed office or ask the City Clerk which department keeps the relevant roster. The California Personnel Office Directory adds state personnel-office contacts, but it is not a list of all state workers. The State Controller's source shows how that statewide directory is presented:

Its office-level scope makes it useful for finding the right public contact without implying that every individual employee appears.

Note: The city directory is best for public roles and routing; it is not a resident list or a surname index.

Redondo Beach Education Directory Search

Education directories cover both Redondo Beach schools and the wider South Bay. Redondo Union High School publishes a Teachers/Staff Directory route with links to staff pages. Nearby El Camino College offers a public faculty and staff directory that can help confirm a name, academic unit, or campus connection. That regional reach matters because many Redondo Beach residents study and teach beyond the city line.

The official El Camino College directory displays the search and filter interface captured below.

Use department browsing when spelling is uncertain, then compare the result with a school page or yearbook from the same period.

Redondo Beach Classmate Directories

Former classmate searches have unusually strong local support. The library links digital copies of The Pilot for Redondo Beach Union High School in 1915, 1916, and every listed year from 1923 through 2025. The missing run from 1917 through 1922 is explicit, so a failed search in those years may reflect the collection gap rather than a person's absence. The Talon covers Aviation High School from 1959 through 1982.

Yearbooks work as people directories because they group students, teachers, clubs, teams, and activities within one school year. Start with a likely graduation window, check nearby volumes, and compare a name with clubs or teammates. For a person whose name changed, a portrait, sibling, activity, or faculty reference may help establish continuity. A yearbook entry is a historical lead, not proof of a later address.

Redondo Beach Business Name Directories

Business sources identify different ties. Los Angeles County's fictitious business name search can connect a trading name with registrants and filing details. Its online name search reaches back to April 2011, while the open-data route covers current statements from February 2024. Filtering by Redondo Beach or ZIP code helps narrow common names. The city Department Directory also points to Business License services, though the research did not locate a public citywide license register.

The California Secretary of State bizfile Online search covers corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and related public filings. Its captured search screen appears below.

Use bizfile to confirm a state entity and filing trail. Use the county FBN source for a local fictitious name. A Chamber of Commerce member directory can show community membership, but it is not official proof that a license or entity remains active.

Note: County FBN records and state entity records answer different questions, so matching names should be checked in both systems.

Redondo Beach Professional License Directories

California's occupational directories are useful when a person or business is tied to a regulated field. The Department of Consumer Affairs Advanced License Search accepts first name, last name, license number, or business name. It can also narrow results by license type or board. A result indicates whether a covered license is current, expired, suspended, revoked, or otherwise marked for discipline.

The DCA search fields are visible in the official interface:

Begin with a surname and first name when the license number is unknown. Add a business name or board only if the list is too broad. Separate state systems also exist for contractors, attorneys, and real-estate licensees, but no search details beyond their basic identity and status functions were confirmed in the assigned research.

Redondo Beach Property Name Directories

Property sources form a directory chain, not one open owner list. The LA County Assessor Portal searches by AIN, address, or assessment legal description and returns an AIN, situs address, and legal description. A situs address means the parcel's physical address. The research did not confirm a public owner-name search in that portal. It is most useful for turning a Redondo Beach address into the parcel identifiers needed for deeper records work.

The recorder's grantor-grantee index then acts as a directory of people named in recorded real-estate documents. Grantor means the party transferring an interest; grantee means the party receiving it. The LA County RR/CC index covers records maintained since 1851, but the office provides no public internet or phone index search. Review requires an appointment at Norwalk Headquarters, with records split between 1851-1957 and 1958-present service areas. Searchers need a grantor or grantee name and an approximate recording year.

That office-only rule makes these public records different from an ordinary web directory. For request procedures and access-law detail, use the Redondo Beach public records access resource.

Historical Redondo Beach Directories

The Redondo Beach Public Library Local History collection gives exact years rather than a vague promise of old volumes. Standalone Redondo Beach directories include 1906 and 1907 in one volume, another 1907 volume, 1912-1913, 1913-1914, 1915-1916, 1920, 1960, and 1963. A Los Angeles directory from 1942 is also listed. Access includes library holdings and online directory links from the local-history page.

City directories usually arrange residents or businesses by name, while a reverse or criss-cross directory starts from an address. The research confirms useful address-based holdings but does not identify a specific publisher or label every volume as reverse format. Treat each volume's layout as a fact to verify at the library.

Note: Check the exact volume format before assuming that a Redondo Beach directory supports reverse address browsing.

South Bay Directory Geography

Modern city limits are a poor stopping point for historical people directories. Redondo Beach Public Library holds combined Redondo, Hermosa, and Manhattan Beach directories for 1923-1924, 1925-1926, 1931, 1936, 1947, and 1952. Those shared volumes reflect how residents, schools, firms, and daily life crossed South Bay boundaries. A person absent from a Redondo-only source may appear under a neighboring beach city or an older address description.

The same geographic care applies to news and education sources. Easy Reader covers Hermosa Beach, Beach Reporter covers Manhattan Beach, and the Hollywood Riviera Tribune spans a Riviera, Torrance, and Redondo overlap. El Camino College in Torrance is also a valid nearby directory. Search both ZIP areas, 90277 and 90278, then widen to Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, and Hollywood Riviera when the date or affiliation supports it.

Redondo Beach Newspaper Name Directories

Newspapers are not directories by format, yet their names, notices, advertisements, school stories, obituaries, and civic reports can fill the years between formal volumes. The library lists the Redondo Reflex from 1906 through 1970, including the Redondo Compass from 1892 and selected city directories. Its Daily Breeze run covers 1904 through 1998 and is available only inside the library through Newspapers.com.

Once a directory supplies a name or address, search a nearby newspaper year for added context. Ads can tie a person to a shop. Obituaries can identify relatives. School and club coverage can distinguish two people with the same name. The Gloria Snyder Collection at the Main Library adds books on South Bay history that may mention homes, civic groups, and neighborhoods not indexed elsewhere.

The Redondo Beach Historical Society and Morrell House provide another local-history channel, shown in the assigned source capture.

The society is best used for local context and research leads, then names and dates can be checked against library directories, newspapers, or official county records.