BY ANY OTHER NAME: The question of...
BY ANY OTHER NAME: The question of whether the city will be called El Toro or Lake Forest (B1) isn’t the first time the naming of a county city has touched off a Northern/Southern California brouhaha. . . . Seal Beach was known as Bay City when it was founded in 1903. At incorporation in 1915, though, the city fathers decided that Bay City would get confused with the City by the Bay: San Francisco. So they chose Seal Beach, for the animals prancing off the coast.
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