City Profile Torrance California 1924 By George W. Neill Realtor

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The cities of Madn county are strictly up-to-datewith broad,well paved,tree embo$'eredstreets,fine mercantileestablishmentsand all the comforts and conveniencesof modern life. As to scenicbeauty Marir County is absolutelywithout a peer. There are resorts open,both winter and summer,where the visitor is ever welcomedby a smiling summerseaand mountainscenesof amazing beauty aDd chalm. The entile county is a picture of wondelful, indescribablebeauty. Thesepoints are connectedwith eachoUrer and the outer world by a splendidsystemof loads. The Msrin RedwoodHighway through Marin county is secondto none in the state. At Point San QuentiD this road is connectedby the RichmondFen'y with the highway system on the eastem side of the bay. Marin county is noted for its excellentschools. ttodetn. uD-to-

dare pj.ima|y and glammar schoolselp pvprJ$hera alld high schools at Almonte and a new 9500,000hjgh school (in process of erectioD at San R,afa€l) assure the peopl€ of the best public school educational facilities. In addition to this we have two splendid mititary schools, th€ Mount Tanalpais Mil;taly Academy and the Hitchcock ilitary Academy and the world reno\\,ned College of the Dominican Sistem. In the country districts the pfiDcipal industries are dairying and fruit growing. The soil is rich and lands and homesites in the differ-ent cities in the countrt' are reesonable in p ce. Manufactures are grcwing and the entire country is on the high road to prosperity.

Torrance B!, GEoEcEW. NEIr,L, Realtor ORRANCE, the beautiful little city which bearsthe name of its founder, b the consummationof an ideal. A group ol los Angeles financiers, headed by J. S. Torlance, conceived the idea of building a model industdal community adjacent to Los Ang€leswhere men working in the factodes might housetheir famili€s in pleasant sun-oundings. As a result of their etrorts Torranc€ was founded in 1912. It has gr"otrnuntil today it has a populationof about five thousand. Situatedsixteenmiles south of Ins Angelesand within fve miles ot Los AngelesHafbor in rha bpautjJulGardpnavallev.wiih Daved boulevaidsradiating from il lo l,os Angeles,the Harbor and the nearby beaches,the \'isitor cannot help but acknowiedgeits location ts stralegrc. Torrance has twenty-fivemiles of paved streets,thirty miles of sidewalksand curbs,a completesewersystem,an abundanfsupply of fine water, splendidpoliceand 6re departments. Thousandsof shade trees have beenplantealand there is a systemof beautiful parks. The schoolsof Tor'ranceare claiming the especialattention of its citizeDs. The TolranceAuditorium.a 975.000buildingseatingone thousandpeople. houses thp mo\ing piclurptnearre.

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Toryancehas a live, proglessive Chamber of Commerce which has , oeen_dorngsplendid work in the development ot thp town. . . Torrance is the home of the Uniol Tool Company. f:Lis institu_ tion,.which supplies ojl well machinery and tools'to'all rrui oilfi" worid, ls one oJ the rpa y gigantic industries of Soul,hert Califol'ria" rrs plan_r,costrng a,plroximately two million dollars, covers about Ewenry-fiveacres of land and employs about 1200 men. tne Uolt nbra St@I Corporation. employing 600 men. _, I ne racrnc.utertflc car shops.conslruciedat a eosl oI $1,.;00.000. rney embody the most up to datp shop constru.jion in {he Uniied

-^il,i1iril,;#.fr:i"rt',,"tij3J'df-t"'.'"ITmproyin gBoo men. Otherindustrias arc: TheAmpfican

Svs"ri oiE&nfo."ins.Hen_ . . drie RubberTire company.SaiemManufactr;i^gC""iiji"y, Si'rl,arra

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The Julian Pe{roleumCorporation is br/ildins a larse refinerv . nere*whrchwtll cosl severalmillion doliar.swhen cbmplelid. . .r orranccis knownas the Industrialand Oii city. In February. 1921,lhp CtlanslorCanfieldMidwayOit Comprnv, tn rf,Jlilj -i;';ith; covery weli of the Torrance fietd. This *"ti *;" "pi,aa"A dr;;thi gpdu^ctjgn.ol a tho_usand tarrels daily in the faff of tfreiame veai I ne nero d€vetopedslowty during the followinq eishteenmo;ths. owrng lo targe Icases heid by l,hpChansloi CanfieldMidwav. rranoard.^the. She , UntonandCcneralpetroleumCompanies, Thesecom_

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nerda.,rt.vas not un{il August.1928.uponthc comingin;f the Mid_ way -NorLnemgusrrerrn the southernspctionof lhe fie,d, in a section that had beensubdi.vided into acre.lots.that the b;;m ;; ;;. ii6; strenuouscompetitionby independentoil companiesfor small leases moKplace,resultlng in over onehundredderricks beinqerecledwithin arxrydays. Ult.menstatethat the development aroundthe Midwav NorIneln well has becn at a more rapid pace than in any othe; Southe-m. CaliJo_rnia fiFtd. It is prodicteaby ceoto;ii; i;ri i"h" i;;ranre rprcl stlt be larger in extpnt {han any field recenllv discovereil rn Ualuomra,and thal within Lhenextsix monlhsit will havea dailv

barrers. rhcoirnprd arpresen-r H:XYillxi rli "r:"i:,iTi$rll,:B8a:' OIL AND INDUSTRIDS ,How -foflunale the lown that has such a combination. ODDor_ runrues or every nature exist aL Torrance from both an investiient and induslrial .standpoint. We invite the *o.f,i.g n,r", tf,u rnunu_ yler a,ndthe invesro-r ro visil Torranceana s-". ioi;;;;l;; 1?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,r1 whrt has been accomplishFdin Luilding this modern indusi;ial ;itv.