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Website. www .torranceca .gov. Torrance is a coastal city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in southwest Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is part of what is known as the South Bay region of the metropolitan area. A small section of the city, 1.5 miles (2.4 km), abuts the Pacific Ocean.
Louis Zamperini. Louis Silvie Zamperini (January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014) was an American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian Evangelist. He took up running in high school and qualified for the United States in the 5,000 m race for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing 8th while setting a new lap record in the process.
October 13, 1983. Torrance High School is a high school located in Torrance, California. Founded in 1917, it is one of the oldest high schools in continuous use in California and is the oldest of the five high schools in the Torrance Unified School District. Four of its buildings are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
Torrance, California. Histories of cities in California. History of Los Angeles County, California.
Zamperini Field (IATA: TOA, ICAO: KTOA, FAA LID: TOA) is a public airport three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Torrance, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. [ 1 ] The airport is classified by the FAA as a Regional Reliever [ 2 ] and was once known as Torrance Municipal Airport ; it was renamed for local sports and war hero ...
Southern California. Jared Torrance was born in Gowanda, New York, in 1853, and moved to Southern California in approximately 1887 to settle initially in Pasadena where he worked in real estate. Among other notable transactions, he briefly owned the Mount Lowe Railway, above Pasadena in the San Gabriel Mountains, at the turn of the century.
The Western Museum of Flight (WMOF) is an aviation museum located at Zamperini Field, the municipal airport in Torrance, California.WMOF is operated by the Southern California Historical Aviation Foundation.
Walteria, Torrance. Coordinates: 33°48′18″N 118°21′04″W. Walteria branch, Torrance Public Library, Los Angeles County, California. Walteria on a 1904 map of Los Angeles County. Walteria is a neighborhood in south Torrance in southern California, United States. It is bounded by Hawthorne Boulevard on the east, Pacific Coast Highway on ...