Old Torrance Olmsted District
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The City of Torrance anchors Los Angeles County's South Bay area and is known widely as a headquarters city for corporate giants Exxon Mobil, Nissan, Honda, and others. Yet the city's unique history often gets glossed over. Downtown Torrance, also known as Old Torrance and the Olmsted Districts, was laid out in 1912 by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the influential urban-designer son of the Father of Landscape Architecture, F. L. Olmsted Sr. The town founder and patriarch, Jared Sidney Torrance...
























