>No one with that kinda money would marry her.
Harry Chandler: Through assorted syndicates, he assembled vast amounts of acreage, some to be sold as farmland, some to be subdivided once the city sprawled into it. When he died in 1944, he was believed to be worth $500 million ($5.6 billion in today's dollars).
"A great deal of Los Angeles as it appears today," Joan Didion wrote in a 1990 piece for the New Yorker, "derived from this impulse to improve Chandler property.
from the Coliseum to Caltech, from the Los Angeles Aqueduct to the Southern California aerospace industry, from the freeways, to the city's sprawling form, to the capitalization of the S in Southern California — all these and more at some point have been credited to the Chandler empire.
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