SPECIAL SECTION: VALLEY'S POSTWAR BOOM.Credit the war, the GI Bill, the glorious climate, the good-paying jobs in airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. manufacturing and rocket research, credit what you will but in the middle of the 20th century the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. was the fastest-growing place on Earth. Orchards and fields were transformed into modern suburbia as 700,000 people from all over the nation flocked to the Valley. They prospered as factory workers, engineers, carpenters, barbers, merchants and schoolteachers. They flourished in the California sun as their modest bungalows soared in value and thousands of newcomers poured into their communities. It was boom time in the Valley. Cars were assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. in the Valley and freeways were carved carve v. carved, carv·ing, carves v.tr. 1. a. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice: carved a roast. b. out of farmland. The third in our five special sections celebrating the millennium focuses on the Valley's glory years of the '40s and '50s and how that period gave birth to suburbia. CAPTION(S): Drawing DRAWING: (Color) no caption (Collage collage (kəläzh`, kō–) [Fr.,=pasting], technique in art consisting of cutting and pasting natural or manufactured materials to a painted or unpainted surface—hence, a work of art in this medium. of World War II posters) Jon Gerung/Staff Artist |
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