Happy Birthday, Beverly Hills!
Reply(1) Top left: Lily Pond 1915; Bottom left: City Hall 1925; Top right: Greystone Mansion 1928; Bottom right: Rodeo Dr. 1925 (City of Beverly Hills) BEVERLY HILLS, CA — One hundred seven years ago today, the citizens of one of the nation's first planned communities incorporated their city. What began as a lima bean field and later an oil well-drilling site had been transformed into a town full of parks and wide curving streets, designed with affordability and tranquility in mind, named Beverly Hills after bucolic Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. A few years later, the arrival of the world'...
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