Southern California real estate boom of the 1880s

Some of the 1880s developments later grew into notable communities, others quickly vanished into history, several persisted for a time as railroad sidings or specks on a map and eventually lent their names to businesses, streets, and later residential subdivisions.

[8] Settlements in Los Angeles County founded during the 1887 boom included Alhambra, Altadena, Avalon (originally called Shatto), Burbank, Claremont, Duarte, Garvanza, Glendale, Glendora, Inglewood, Lamanda Park, Monrovia, North Hollywood (first known as Toluca, then Lankershim), Ontario, Redondo Beach, Sierra Madre, South Pasadena, and Upland (originally Magnolia).

[3] Other proposed developments in Southern California that busted included Sunset, Hyde Park, Rosecrans, Walteria, Cahuenga, Port Ballona, Seabright, Ramona, Ivanhoe, Lordsburg (now La Verne), Fairview, and many more.

[3] Southern Pacific Railroad-adjacent towns (or railway sidings) established in the Los Angeles area in 1887 were Fillmore, Saugus, Bardsdale, Fernando, Pacoima, Tuni, Dundee, Burbank, Tropico, Aurant, Ramona, Shorb's, Nadeau, The Palms, Almond, and Sansevain.

Rapid transportation in the way of electric or steam roads; magnificent hotels; colleges of applied sciences and manufacturing establishments were promised for the new town.

Building a resort hotel, such as the still-extant Hotel Del Coronado , at the site of the development, was standard operating procedure for 1880s Southern California land speculators
Map of Los Angeles County published October 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition , after the 1887 boom but before the 1905 boom
The Centinela-Inglewood Land Co. touted a "University of Southern California Daniel Freeman College of Applied Sciences" but it was never constructed [ 10 ]