Looking around at the South Bay landscape today, it’s hard to imagine it as the thriving agricultural area it once was in the first half of the 20th century. Dairy farms once dotted the landscape. Giant greenhouses near present-day 190th St. and Western Ave. raised and sold orchids and gardenias renowned nationwide, and the PalosContinue reading “Torrance hog farms became community nuisances as the area’s population grew”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
