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Huntington Park
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TINTINGTON PARK, covering two squaremiles, is a city of
twelve thousand, has a splendid live, wide-awake,bustling
business center half a mile long, fiDe th€ateN, sehools,
churches,tree lined, well paved streets, splendidmunicipal water
system,excellentgas and elect c light ser'l'ice. Beyond is Wa-lnut
Park. a beautifal home section with more than a thousand pretty,
modern bungalowsnestling among iovely walnut trees. with a home
building program of over a million a year.
Beyond, South Gate, Home Gar-dens,Magrolia park, Wawona
Patk Tweedy Park and on to Lj'nwood lour miles south on I-ong
Beach boulevard; on the east Ure Benson Tract. Huutin!'ton par[
Snu-arF, Bell. l\4rJ,.woodand C drhy: and on rhp weor Loi Angeles
pushing steadily southwald tovard the harbor.
All now l1 rppidly growing And developingcommunilJ.mostly
subn\r'1ed.\\rrh Davp.ls1r'eets.
"lertr,c lighr. gas .nd warer servicp,
with nlelly bungalowhonresspr.inging up )iki mushrooms in every
drrecrronanctboaslIng e nopulalionof aboutfifly thousand.
Hlrntington Park is the hea of this development. Frromtl€se
vadous communitiesfivelve bus lines act as feealer-s to the street
car line, which connectsI{untington Park with Los Angelesfor a ffve
cent fare, bringing all of this tra{Iic to our city and Los Angeles.
Huntington Park is the very center of the developmen-t between
Los Angeleqon the north and [Dng Bea.h and lhe harbor on the
soulh. This devclopmenr cannotgo by. il mustcomelhrouThHunlF
ington Park. Its residential grcwth is therelore rapidly spreading
east_andsouth, paralleling the industrial growth from Los Angeles
southvard aloDgthe raihoads to the hrlrbor. Ours is tho reside-ntiat
and businesssection for this industrial district as well as beins a
res'dentialspcrionfor Los Angeles.because of its proximity.
, As an indication of its gao\Mth,building permits have jumped
from $150,000 in 1910to 91,265,000 in 1922and $2,000,000 G 19h;
assessed valuatlon, from 91,000,000to 9?,500,000in 1923; bank de-
posits, from $55,000in 1910 to 92,786,000in 1922; Union High
Schoolenrollm€nt,flom 35 studentsto 1400; and the grade schoois,
from 200 to 2?00today.
And this is only a beginning. Wc are only upon rhe threshold
of the dcvelopn ent ihat is to be ilr Hunlinston Park and ils sur-
roundingterrjtory. Baskingin the warmth;f the southernsun and
coolealtythe genUebreezesfrom the Pacific,only twelve miles away;
blessedwith every beauty and comfo* of the suburbancommtrniiv
and wrth all ihe advanlagpsof thp metl'opolis. only thir.tl minulei
!way; backed by aS rich a country as can be found anl4ghere, witi
fast growing indusrriessupplyingemplo).rnent to thousands, and a[
our dooN.oil, the liquidgoldthat drivesthe pulseof modemindustry,
altd one of, if not the most important commoditiesin commerciallife
today,justly proud of her'gTowthand achievements in her shott Dast.
absolutelysure of her rapid €ao$4h for the ful-Ure.a moderniiiy,
enthusiasticallyprog:ressive,with golden opportuDities for labor.,
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