Clifford Fletcher Reid was born in McMinnville, Oregon, in 1883. His first business venture after dropping out of college involved selling stereopticon cards. He turned out to be a natural salesman. After marrying and moving to Portland, he found real estate suited his marketing skills. The vibrant market in the Los Angeles area in theContinue reading “Clifford Reid envisioned Torrance’s Hollywood Riviera as part celebrity enclave”
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Actress Jeanne Crain went from Inglewood High to Hollywood stardom
Jeanne Crain’s ascent to movie stardom in the 1940s had all the earmarks of the classic local-girl-becomes-Hollywood-star story. Her parents, George Crain and Loretta Carr, met while he was a small-town high school principal in Ray, North Dakota in the early 1920s. They married in 1924 and decided to move west in search of aContinue reading “Actress Jeanne Crain went from Inglewood High to Hollywood stardom”
