The Kettler Ranch acreage in present-day Southeast Torrance was built on a ranch that once belonged to German immigrant Emil Kettler. Born in 1847, the pioneering farmer and landowner and his wife, Amalie, originally had settled on farmland he bought in Wilmington in 1877. Two years later, he sold that land in order to purchaseContinue reading “Huge postwar Kettler Knolls development carpeted Southeast Torrance with homes”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
