This next photo shows beach parking at San Clemente in about 1928. From my own childhood, I seem to remember a big dirt parking lot. Today the lot is paved, landscaped, and well-lighted.
In the early days, developer Ole Hanson decreed that all buildings in San Clemente must conform to the town's slogan: "The Spanish Village of White Houses." Everything built was in a Spanish motif and featured white walls and red roofs. Perhaps you thought South County's planned communities and strict CC&Rs were something recent?
2 comments:
I love San Clemente !
That is one city with a hot bar scene !
If you're curious how CC&Rs and planned communities came to be, you might enjoy reading "Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930" by Professor Robert M. Fogelson. The planning at Palos Verdes definitely helped set the tone in Southern California. It's a good read and available from Amazon.
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