Had an uncle who after WWII, stayed in LA, rather than return to (now rust belt) PA. Married a local girl whose father farmed watermelons at what is now Manhattan Beach. They kept a few parcels which have slowly been sold off
My uncle was an accountant for the LA Govt. Very average middle class, although I always envied by cousins who lived the life of the Beach Boys.
House prices in their old neighborhood are now $5-$10 million.
**My uncle was an accountant for the LA Govt. Very average middle class, although I always envied by cousins who lived the life of the Beach Boys.**
Similar to a couple of my mother’s cousins. One stayed out in LA after the war, and another went back to the Illinois to farm. Winter of 55-56 he took his wife and kids out to LA to visit the brother. They came back, sold out of farming, and moved there.
One summer about 10 years later, they came back to visit a a family reunion on his parents farm. Their spiffy west coast dressed sons made fun of us second cousin farm boys, dressed in jeans and leather work shoes. Soon their spiffy clothes were all grass stained, having been demolished in good ol farm boy wrasslin matches. Their mother was not pleased.