Real estate agents often met tourists from Los Angeles traveling on the Pacific Red Car Line when they stopped at the Balboa Pier and pavilion, offering picnics and boat rides to the island with ...

Tour guides point out another view that might be familiar: One of the opening scenes from “Gilligan’s Island ... Zone on the Balboa Peninsula. Tours: 45-minute “Celebrity Homes, Mansions ...

Annette Giermann hopes to break the 1,000 mark in ticket sales for Sunday’s Balboa Island Holiday Home Walking Tour. “Last year we sold 910 and we’re excited to have Santa for the first time ...

Artist Gary Miltimore can be found most mornings in the shade of the Island Market on Balboa Island ... Collins and his real estate agents sold lots on the island for a few hundred dollars ...

The island of Balboa (population 3,500) is a sliver of Newport (population 86,000), formed in the early 1900s as a getaway for the wealthy and Hollywood royalty. Waterfront homes sell for $2 ...

Eventually those precious homes on top of what was once a mudflat became some of the most coveted in the country; to this day there are only 3,000 residents who call Balboa Island home.