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Lakewood, California. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Los Angeles. Associated ZIP codes: 90711, 90712, 90713, 90714, 90715.

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Lakewood is in Los Angeles County, California.

Region: Southern California

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90711, 90712, 90713, 90714, 90715

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Lakewood is a planned community built after World War II by the developers Louis Boyar, Mark Taper and Ben Weingart, who are credited with "altering forever the map of Southern California." Begun in late 1949 and completed in 1953, it helped turn mass-produced housing into the reality of the postwar 1950s. Veterans were offered home loans with no down payment and 30-year mortgages at 4 percent, and monthly payments ran $44 to $56.

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On the first day of sales, March 24, 1950, an estimated 30,000 people lined up to tour seven model houses. By the end of April more than 200,000 had visited the sales office and more than 1,000 families had bought homes, once 107 in a single hour. Empty fields became 17,500 houses in less than three years, with a house finished every seven and a half minutes and a record 110 in one day. Its main boulevards have landscaped medians and frontage roads, a design praised by planners of the day as a compromise between the urban grid and winding cul-de-sacs. By 1953 unincorporated Lakewood had more than 70,000 residents and faced three choices: annexation to Long Beach, staying unincorporated or incorporating under a new plan in which the city would contract with the county for services. In 1954 residents in the northern and eastern sections voted to incorporate, the largest community in the country ever to do so and the first new city in Los Angeles County since 1939. The part annexed to Long Beach is now Lakewood Village. This contract approach became known as a model for California cities. Sources Wikipedia: Lakewood, California

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