Talk:Torrance, California

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[edit] Residency criteria

Are there any facts behind Quentin Tarantino's residency? (unsigned comment by Icicles, 30 May 2006)

When someone added Tarantino to the list of notable residents about a month ago I did a brief web search. He has mentioned in at least one interview that he lived "in Torrance," but attending Narbonne HS (per his Wikipedia article) would seem to indicate that he probably lived in the unincorporated part of LA County that lies within the Torrance PO zone.

If we're going to adhere strictly to the city limits, I believe Michelle Kwan has the same issue. -- Engineer Bob 19:34, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neighborhoods

Should there be any information on the sub-communities in Torrance such as: Hollywood Riviera, Walteria, El Nido, etc.? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Emesselt (talk • contribs) 15:26, 12 April 2007 (UTC).

I agree someone should make one and here's a little description: The Hollywood Riviera and towards Palos Verdes are upper-income class and has many condominums/apartment complexes facing the beachfront, the western neighborhoods facing Redondo Beach (Clifton and El Nido) are mainly home to middle-class home owners and the Northern part facing Gardenia and the eastern part facing Carson (actually the L.A. city limits) are more blue collar or working-class residents. Torrance had suffered from the statewide closures of government contractor plants with the national recession of the early 1990s, then a real estate price hike in the 1999/2000 (esp. the Beach cities) made Torrance a popular housing market until the "mortgage failure crisis" in the late 2000's.

Torrance has a high level of racial diversity and notably a city built on tolerance of gays/lesbians, minority groups and political ideas. Torrance has one of the largest Japanese American communities in the U.S. dating back to the early 1900's, along with other Asian Americans like Koreans, Filipinos, ethnic Chinese and Southeast Asians came in later decades. Also large numbers of Latinos, descendants of Southern European nationalities and African-Americans had much freedom to live where they wished before the civil rights era (1950's). I was told many American Indians live in Torrance as a result of Bureau of Indian Affairs relocation programs, mostly from the Cherokee tribe of Oklahoma. +71.102.53.48 (talk) 06:03, 8 May 2008 (UTC)