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Long Beach, founded by William Erwiore (1844-1891) came to Southern California from his birthplace, England. He realized a city would serve well if developed between San Pedro and Wilmington. His plan failed initially, but not before he succeeded in selling a handful of lots to willing buyers at prices from $12.50 an acre to $20 an acre. Originally, he bought 4,000 acres from its owner, Jotham Bixby, whom readers may remember from the Bixby Ranch, once a Spanish land, and before that, a native indian land. Others followed Willmore and succeeded in establishing Long Beach from its former owner's given name, Willmore City.
Los Angeles "is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality -- Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, 1986. Baudrillar's observation strikes one as an insight too obvious to miss, but too easy to go unnoticed. It's so true. But there's another insight just as obsure to those without an interest in such ideas. Los Angeles has a verticality in its population similar to the horizontality of outerspace itself, its people and their imaginations.
Note Sally Kristen Ride (1951), an astronanaut. She gradulated from Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Weslake School) in Los Angeles. Sally became a trained scientist. In 1982 she became the first woman to travel in space. With Los Angeles' liberal approach to social mobility and open-minded thinking, Sally's ride became possible because our social imagination changed with our attitudes toward women. Remember, 30 years before Sally Ride rode into space, women were not allowed into the US Post Office as mail carriers. This patriarchal attitude fell in many areas of our society, allowing women like Sally Ride to ride to the beat of their own drummer.
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