Neighborhood Spotlight: Torrance`s work ethic, economic diversity have kept it healthy through hard times
(LA Times Auto Racing)

Los Angeles in 1910 was racked by labor strife, and a strike by the city´s ironworkers did not sit well with the business community. It was against that backdrop that real estate developer Jared Sidney Torrance decided to found an open-shop industrial community that was meant to be free from the...