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MAKING A SPLASH.


The next time you're in an airplane above the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  metropolis, look out the window. The one thing you'll notice - other than the traffic and smog - is a plethora of small blue shapes. Just about every other yard has a swimming pool.

And, in some cases, not just your typical rectangular lap pool. Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region,  have taken the swimming pool to a whole new level with odd shapes, waterfalls and other whimsical whim·si·cal  
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1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary.

2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality.
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 the Valley's most creative pools - in shape, setting and accouterments ac·cou·ter·ment or ac·cou·tre·ment  
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. If you think yours makes a splash, send you name, address and phone number along with a photo and/or brief description of the pool by March 20 to: Daily News, L.A. Life, Making a Splash, P.O. Box 4200, Woodland Hills, CA 91365-4200. Or send the information via fax to the attention of L.A. Life, Making a Splash at (818) 713-3545 or via e-mail at dnlalife@dailynews.com (Do not send photos via e-mail, please.)

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Title Annotation:L.A. Life
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Mar 8, 2001
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