This collection includes oral histories recorded in partial fulfillment for a Masters Degree in Public History by Molly M. Sipe. It includes interviews of former City of Torrance Mayors, Jim Armstrong, Ken Miller, and Katy Geissert, as well as other residence and city officials. These include Gerald L. Alter, Rick Capellino, Mikko Haggott-Henson, and J. Walker Owens. This collection has been digitized and is available online.

The City of Torrance was founded in 1912. The land that would become Torrance was aquired from the Dominguez Family by Jared Sidney Torrance and his investors who formed the Dominguez Land Company. Planners and archictects such as Irving Gill, were hired to design buildings, homes for workers, commercial buildings, and the Pacific Electric Railway.

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