Lakewood, California
Los Angeles County · Population 82,496 · Card no. 10208
A postwar suburb built at extraordinary speed in 1950, and the model for a whole form of California city government.
- Builders completed as many as 100 houses a day at the peak.
- The Lakewood Plan, contracting services from the county, let dozens of cities incorporate cheaply.
- The mall opened in 1951 as one of the largest in the country.
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