Once a flatland area of oil wells and open fields, the community of Santa Fe Springs, 15 miles southeast of Los Angeles, is now a full-fledged city. Santa Fe Springs lacks a central commercial core area in keeping with its progress since incorporation in 1957. View shows the principal business center of Santa Fe Springs looking southwest at northeast portal, which surrounds the busy intersection of Telegraph Road, Orr and Day roads. A population of 16,500 lives in 20 per cent of the city's area, zoned for residential use. Photo dated: January 31, 1964.
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