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Torrance business district, Torrance, Calif.
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Description
Identifier
clloy_187
Title
Torrance
business
district
,
Torrance
,
Calif
.
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
1920-1930
Subject (Topic)
Central
business
districts--California--Torrance
;
Streets--California--Torrance
;
Stores
,
Retail--California--Torrance
;
Subject (Place)
Torrance
(Calif.)
;
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
M
.
Kashower
Co
.
Place of Publication
Los
Angeles
,
Cal
.
Language
eng
Description
A
daytime
view
of the
central
business
district
in
Torrance
,
California
,
near
the
intersection
of
Sartori
and
El
Prado
. The
shops
lining
the
street
include
a
candy
store
and a
furniture
store
. The
central
street
is
full
of
parked
cars
.
Historical Background
The
City
of
Torrance
is
located
19
miles
southwest
of
downtown
"
Los
Angeles
, on
lands
that were
once
part
of the
Rancho
San
"
Pedro
. In
1911
,
Pasadena
financier
and
philanthropist
Jared
"
Sidney
Torrance
bought
3,500
acres
of
land
from the
Dominguez
"
family
,
planning
to
turn
it
into a
modern
,
industrial
city
with
business
,
industrial
, and
residential
districts
.
It
was
well
situated
to
make
use
of
nearby
San
Pedro
, the
major
shipping
port
for
Southern
California
.
Torrance
hired
landscape
architects
John
C
. and
Frederick
Law
Olmstead
,
Jr
. to
lay
out
the
townsite
, and
archited
Irving
Gill
to
oversee
the
construction
. The
plan
incorporated
ample
space
for
public
parks
, and
included
the
planting
of
over
300,000
trees
. The
citizens
voted
355-to-11
to
incorporate
in
1921
. The
discovery
of
oil
in
Torrance
in the
1920s
brought
prosperity
to the
area
, and
it
remains
a
major
oil-producing
region
for the
SOuthern
California
area
.
Publisher's Identifier
Series number 1312; Written in lower right corner of image: "18312"
Additional Notes
Printed
on
textured
paper
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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