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Originally Posted by Yuri
Los Angeles and Orange counties combined had 997k in 1920. De facto metro area back then would certainly not include Orange and far away rural parts of LA county.
For 1930, LA+Orange definition (adopted officially in 1950) might be fine.
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Nobody lived in the Antelope Valley or South OC in 1920. Almost that entire 997k figure would have been in the LA basin + SGV and SF valley streetcar suburbs. I mean, SoCal is pretty much the prototype American suburbia, and by the 1920s it was already a sprawling auto-oriented metropolis.