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Tke Real,tyBl,ueBook al Cailornia 39?Three years ago we had a fourth classpost ofiice. Today we havecity delivery and a post office equal to that to be found in most townsoI 10,000._Three years ago we had numerous questionablereso*s. TodayThree yea$ ago we were well content with cesspools,but todeywe point'with pride to our complete system of sewers, installldthrough a bond issu, put over by a board of trustees who haveendeavord o keep pacewith the city's phenomenal g:rowth and pro-vide for the future.Three years ago we had no ire alarm system. Today there isbeing nstalleda completeGamewellFire Alarm system.Prior to three yeaN agothe city was in an embryoiic state; thatstage has ben passed and Culver City today has embarkealon ajourney from which ther is no backing down. She must progress.

BellflowerELLFLOWER, is, pmctically speaking, an all new town, havinggrown from a srrall haBlet of 500 peopleto e inoilm city of8,000 nhabitentsduring the parstwo years; the causeof thisphenomnal grow'th being the discovery of oil near the city at Signal

Hill and Santa Fe Spdngs, these two fields ;beingbut a few milesdistant.Besides the oil wells, many large refineries have located near thecity, in all directions, furnishing emplo}.Inerlt o hundrealsof men, allof whom are residentsof this eity and its environs. Daitying andpoulhv raising is carried on quite extensively around Bellflower.The town was odginally laid out in acretracts for the purposeoffumishing homes for people wlo wanted more than a to\rn lot forgardening, ruit and poultry raising, but since Lheoil discovery helatter industricshave been neglected o a great extent and much ofthe a(reagehas beensubdividednto town lols.Bellflower has one of the best water systems in the State.Bellflowerloastsof having he very bestof schools, ro gr.ammarschoolbuildingsnow doingser/ice ard bonds ssued or a third build-ing, the erectionof which wiu begin n the near future.Thre are seventy-five tores and business ouses n Bellflower,nearly all being new andof brick construction.Two bariks have embarked n businesshere during the past threeyears, the Commercial snd the First National, and both arl doing agoooDusrneaa,Drilling for oil is in progress in several localities around Bell-l9t"I y.illtgood prospects f developjng nothergood ield simjlar toDrgruunrn ano santa ! e Sprrngs,In th way of transportation Bellflower is well supplied,the pacifrcElectiic Santa Ana line running East and West, comecting with LosAngele-snd all lin-es ut of thal (ity. Stages iom Long Beachpaesthroughhere to a.llpointsNoIth.Much of the land sunounding Bellflowerhas ben eased or oil.

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398 Tlrc Re(LltABlue Book of Californi.Lwhich would ndicate he confidencef oil pr.omotersn this field. Theleases,n nearly every nstance, ave beenmade o the large oil com-parnes,The future oJ Bllflower s exceedingly right, many new resi-dences nd storesbeing n courseof construction nd proposed, nd tis predicted that in another five years the populationwill againdouble. We still havrcom for many more homeseekers.

lrlr)Lll.Itltvliili IiE]lr,r'l- rloAlaDThos. w, Powell, Ple8ident.J, D. Clark, Vice Presidetrt.!'troEa6 D. Flynn, Secretary-Trcasurer r. l. xlarriott (o f Hynes).

West HollywoodB?/G. L. SCHMUTZ,ealtor

f T wouldbe ndepd iff iculr o f ind a seciionn any metrcpolishalI hasdeveloppdq fast as WesrHoll)wood;Wccr. ol lJwood eing^ thrt paft oI Los Angelpsboundpd n the east by La Brea avenue.and on the north by the Santa Monicamountains.In this district, there are areas hat were under cultivation lessthan two yearsago; today hey are almost completely eveloped ithhomesof bona ide residents.Farm lands, untillable swamps, l'ugged hill slopes, have allbeensubdivjded, nd mprovedwith pavedstreets, oDcrete idewalks,gas,electricity and water conrections; hey have beendeveloped itha variety of charminghomes, ncomparable nl'lvhereon the face ofIheglobe.Bounding west Hollyrvoodon the north is the Santa Monicarange of mountains, erminating at the Pacific Ocean,someeightmiles to the west. It is along he southernslopeof thesemountainsthat Holltwood and West Holl)'wood ie, nestledagaipst the hillsid,and spreadingsoutherly nto the alluvial flats below.Ir West Hollywood. he topographyva es,as well as the pricesof property; there is variety wide enough o pleaseeither taste orpocketbook. One can live along the slope of the gentlehillside, orreside on level grouDd;one can purchasepmperty at very modestprices,or get all of the exclusivenesshat moneycanpurchase.fn the extreme western end of West Holl]^vood lies the beautifulvillage of Sheunan, vith the poinsettia ields ancl avocadoglovesspreadgraciousl)'along the hillside, and interspersedwith maglifi-cent homes,blendnrg nto a color scheme hat only the SupremeArchitect could create.West Hollj'wood has the least variation in temperature of anysctionof Los Angeles ounty; it is frostlessandfogless. Dudng thehottest days of summer West Holll'wood s fanned by the cool,re-freshing breezesrom the ocean,

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