About Torrance's South Torrance

South Torrance has a great school district and the home prices range from a starter homes from $470's to custom homes with Views around $1,500,000.00 South High School is an excellent public school. Torrance is working currently with the Portal, after school program for preteens to teens 12 thru 18 at Coast Christian Church. Free and tutoring available for Torrance Students and surrounding communities.
Here are some fun facts from Wikipedia on Torrance is a city located in the southwestern or "S…

South Torrance has a great school district and the home prices range from a starter homes from $470's to custom homes with Views around $1,500,000.00 South High School is an excellent public school. Torrance is working currently with the Portal, after school program for preteens to teens 12 thru 18 at Coast Christian Church. Free and tutoring available for Torrance Students and surrounding communities.
Here are some fun facts from Wikipedia on Torrance is a city located in the southwestern or "South Bay" region of Los Angeles County, California.

As of the 2000 census, the city population was 137,946; in 2005 the population was estimated to be 142,384. Torrance is the sixth largest city in Los Angeles County and the 34th largest in the state of California.[1]

History
Torrance was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant, issued to Juan Jose Dominguez, signed by King Carlos III of the Spanish Empire.

In the early 1900s, real estate developer Jared Sidney Torrance and other investors saw the value of creating a mixed industrial-residential community south of Los Angeles. They purchased part of an old Spanish land grant and hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to design a new planned community. [2] The resulting town was founded in October 1912 and named after Torrance; the city of Torrance was formally incorporated in May 1921. [3]

A group known as Save Historic Old Torrance, or SHOT for short, led by Bonnie Mae Barnard, has sought to create a zone in Torrance's downtown area, making it tougher to develop in that area or reconstruct homes in such a manner that it would lose its historic character. Barnard and her husband, along with SHOT, recently tried to have the City Council pass an ordinance renaming the historic area, "The Olmsted District." The measure did not pass, however.

Barnard is also the author of a book on Old Torrance, and is currently an English teacher with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District at Palos Verdes Intermediate School in Palos Verdes Estates. She and her husband live in the same home that once belonged to Louis Zamperini, who is oftentimes referred to as Torrance's hometown boy. Zamperini attended Torrance High School and later went on to be a track star in the Olympics. During World War II, he was shot down from his plane and spent days adrift in the Pacific Ocean. He survived the war and currently lives in Hollywood, California.