Swimming pools. By one calculation from five years ago, there are a quarter-million private swimming pools in Los Angeles County. AdvertisementThe celebrated British painter David Hockney turned the swimming pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel into a law unto itself. The flowering of the Southern California lifestyle, especially after World War II, made the swimming pool the ornament of the Good Life, not the Unreachable Life. AdvertisementA 1962 advertisement that ran in the Los Angeles Times offered homes with pools in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 13, 2021 11:02 UTC