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BOOM TIMES: The Huntington Beach Co. developed much of Huntington Beach (A1), but finding oil gave the town its biggest jolt. . . . The resulting boom shocked contemporaries. . . . Marveled one publication in 1921: “Seventeen months ago Huntington Beach was a sleepy town of 2,400 souls. Today there are about 8,500 permanent residents and a floating population of perhaps 4,000.” . . . The city’s reputation as a town of roughnecks persisted into the ‘50s.
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