Lakewood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 80,048 at the 2010 census. It is bordered by Long Beach upon the west and south, Bellflower on the north, Cerritos upon the northeast, Cypress on the east, and Hawaiian Gardens upon the southeast. Major thoroughfares tally Lakewood (SR 19), Bellflower, and Del Amo Boulevards and Carson and South Streets. The San Gabriel River Freeway (I-605) runs through the city’s eastern regions.

Lakewood is a post-World War II planned community. Developers Louis Boyar, Mark Taper and Ben Weingart are certified with “altering until the invalidate of time the map of Southern California.” Begun in late 1949, the carrying out of the developers’ plan in 1953 helped in the transformation of mass-produced housing from its forward phases in the 1930s and 1940s to the authenticity of the postwar 1950s.

WWII veterans could get house loans once no by the side of payment and a 30-year mortgage at on your own 4 percent interest. On the first day of sales, March 24, 1950, an estimated 30,000 people lined occurring to promenade through a quarrel of seven model houses. By the subside of April, more than 200,000 people had flocked to the Lakewood Park sales office and on top of 1,000 families had purchased homes (30 per day upon average). On one occasion, 107 homes were sold in just one hour. The monthly cost was $44 to $56, including principal, interest and insurance.

The building of Lakewood broke records. Empty fields became 17,500 houses in less than three years. A new home was completed every 7+1⁄2 minutes, 40 to 60 houses per day, with a LP 110 completed in a single day.