The 1960s saw the introduction of airliners that could make trans-Pacific flights without refueling, causing a massive increase in air traffic at LAX. Imperial Bank horse sculpture (1975) by Millard Sheets, located at Manchester and Sepulveda When the area had 30,000 residents, it was still lacking a police station, fire station, or hospital. A Los Angeles Times article in 1989 described the development as 'a raw suburb', 'created willy-nilly in the 1940s'. This community, dubbed 'Westchester', grew as the aerospace industry boomed in World War II and afterward. Marlow developed a tract of inexpensive prefabricated single-family homes on the site of a former hog farm at the intersection of Manchester and Sepulveda Boulevards. In the late 1930s, real estate magnate Fritz Burns and his partner Fred W. Westchester hosted the cross country part of the eventing equestrian event for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Westchester was built with the intention of housing members of the working class. The rapid development of the aerospace industry near Mines Field (as the Los Angeles Airport was then known), the move of then Loyola University to the area in 1928, and population growth in Los Angeles as a whole created a demand for housing in the area. Westchester began the 20th century as an agricultural area, growing a wide variety of crops in the dry, farming-friendly climate. The main neighborhood's boundary lines are, generally, on the east: north-south on La Cienega Boulevard or the Inglewood city line on the south: east-west on the city boundary with El Segundo or Imperial Highway on the west: north-south on Pershing Drive and Westchester Parkway, then roughly north-south on a series of residential streets west of Westchester High School to the Playa Vista neighborhood. There is also a two-block-wide shoestring district that runs from the intersection of Centinela Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard north to 63rd Street and then east to Overhill Avenue, where it links with the Hyde Park neighborhood. It includes all of the Los Angeles International Airport. The main part of Westchester is bordered by Playa Vista and Culver City on the north, Inglewood and Lennox on the east, Hawthorne on the southeast, Del Aire and El Segundo on the south and Playa del Rey on the west. 4.2 County, federal, and state representation.

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