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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Los Angeles County, City of Lakewood
Sometimes called
"an instant city" because of its origins, going from lima bean fields
in 1950 to a well-developed city in California by 1960. Lakewood is, along with
Levittown, New York, the archetypal post-World War II American suburb. The vast
majority of its housing stock is small, mass-produced single-story houses on
tree-lined streets, sold initially to World War II and Korean War veterans who
worked in the factories of Long Beach and the South Bay. Lakewood's primary
thoroughfares are mostly boulevards with landscaped medians, with frontage
roads on either side in residential districts. Unlike in most similar
configurations, however, access to the main road from the frontage road is only
possible from infrequently spaced collector streets. This arrangement, hailed
by urban planners of the day, is a compromise between the traditional urban
grid and the arrangement of winding "drives" and culs-de-sac that
dominates contemporary suburban and exurban design. Lakewood was the first city
in the nation to contract for all of its municipal services when Lakewood
incorprated as a municipality in 1954, making it the nation's first
"contract city." Lakewood is the home of the first Denny's Restaurant.
In 1953 Harold Butler founded Danny’s Donuts, which was renamed to Denny's
Restaurant in 1959. Lakewood was named Sports Illustrated's "Sportstown
USA" in 2005 for the State of California. |
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