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I just found this gem on YouTube of the suburb of in which I live in now. Ontario, California today is a massive suburb of Los Angeles about 30 miles east of Downtown. Well this YouTube video was of Ontario when it was a small town. Before the LA metro sprawl swallowed up the entire region. Before the massive warehouse boom. Before the rat race. Ensinhouwer was just barely beginning his massive Interstate Highway and Freeways masterplan. Now there’s 10 lane freeways everywhere. Anyways enjoy
Oh and something else i’v noticed is that we Americans used to actually walk in our town’s downtown. This goes for all downtowns anywhere in the country. Ironic how small towns back then were more vibrant than many big cities today.
I just found this gem on YouTube of the suburb of in which I live in now. Ontario, California today is a massive suburb of Los Angeles about 30 miles east of Downtown. Well this YouTube video was of Ontario when it was a small town. Before the LA metro sprawl swallowed up the entire region. Before the massive warehouse boom. Before the rat race. Ensinhouwer was just barely beginning his massive Interstate Highway and Freeways masterplan. Now there’s 10 lane freeways everywhere. Anyways enjoy
Oh and something else i’v noticed is that we Americans used to actually walk in our town’s downtown. This goes for all downtowns anywhere in the country. Ironic how small towns back then were more vibrant than many big cities today.
Yes, many of us Boomers remember this quite well.
PS: I didn't vote because there was no good choice for me. FYI, I would have loved to have lived in 1947 big city California.
Nice poll! I think one would need to transport themselves back to 1947 to make an accurate answer, as hindsight, as they say is 20/20. Of course some probably wanted to live in these smaller SoCal towns to be outside the major city and preferred a more rural setting. You can say this for about 75% of LA County suburbs in 1947. Perhaps others saw the potential to be in the middle of a great boom in suburbia in the LA basin. Either way, those who bought property in '47 fared well. Those advanced developers who bought huge parcels did really well. An interesting time capsule, and I would have loved to talk to property owners that year about their expectations of the future.
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That was before my time, but growing up in the suburbs in CA not long after that, in the 50s, I still prefer where I am now. I was miserable every summer and fall with the heat, every year the first week or two of School it was 100-105.
Compton, Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lynwood, as well as Gardena, Florence, Carson were all white suburban areas in 1947. Today all these cities are mostly hispanic and/or african american. A number of these cities are thriving today with the current demographics.
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