11/9/2022 0 Comments Divvy homes in my areaThe Clearwater Chamber of Commerce and its women’s division balked, and one of those who soothed hurt feelings was Frank Zamboni, Kiwanis Club leader and creator of the charismatic ice resurfacing machine that bears his name. They fought over it for almost two years, and it took some Solomonic doing to pull off. After World War II, as suburbanization made hay on the old hayfields the two joined under a new name - Paramount. With the neighboring town of Clearwater, it threw annual hay and dairy festivals. Hynes was a riverside dairy town and - hard as it is to believe now - the hay capital of the world, at least by bragging measurement. The onetime town of Hynes is now the city of Paramount - well, half of it. and Glendale, the city voted in 1917 to pair up with Glendale, in spite of a warning in the Tropico Sentinel that “Tropico will become the wife” - meaning the inferior - “in this wedding of towns.” Tropico’s favorite son? The acclaimed visionary photographer Edward Weston, who took photos of the town and portraits of its residents, for sale at his studio, $5 for a dozen.Ī postcard with a 1903 postmark from Patt Morrison’s collection shows a family on their farm in Hynes, now part of Paramount. Tropico’s end began when the costs of running the city grew too high, and in a tug of war for its affections between L.A. Ayres and family, from Nebraska, were “wintering in Tropico to escape the rigors of their northern home.” Tropico then was still a town of about 75 houses - it wasn’t incorporated until 1911 - whose town marshal bragged that there was not “a single place where liquor can be obtained in any shape or manner.” About 150 of Tropico’s 860 acres were at one point devoted to growing strawberries. In February 1888, The Times’ society page noted that a Mr. Tropico was a valiant little town wedged between L.A. Moneta was a township, now part of Gardena, that flourished from the turn of the century until World War II as a center where Japanese families farmed and shopped and went to school the community survives in memory and programs at the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute, and in a few Gardena businesses calling themselves “Moneta.” Others were peddled almost as cynically as Florida swamplands: “ocean view” cities nearly 30 miles from the ocean, and other “view” towns whose vistas were desert desolation. Bearing some fanciful names like Ivanhoe and Wahoo, some were sold off with hopes and prices higher than their survival odds. Some were “dream towns” imagined by real estate developers, planned and platted and sold, but never born. Some were actual burgs that grew and dwindled, were annexed or swallowed up. But here’s a vanishing act for you: There were once at least 100 towns laid out here, all ready to welcome the big wave of settlers from points east who created the region’s big real estate boom just over a century after the city was founded in 1781. Within those miles are now 88 incorporated cities, Los Angeles chief among them. The county of Los Angeles embraces more than 4,000 square miles. If you saw them, you might not have passed a Breathalyzer test. Ever driven around the vastness of Greater Los Angeles and seen the freeway offramp for the town of Gladysta? Or Terracina? How about the San Gabriel River town of Chicago Park - literally in the San Gabriel River?
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