Lake Los Angeles? Never heard of it.
ebay
To my surprise, there actually
is a
Lake Los Angeles.The only problem is....the lake is missing. Huh?
google aerial
Lake Los Angeles is a
'census-designated place', or
CDP in Los Angeles County with a population of 12,328. The area was formerly known as '
Los Angeles Buttes'.
In 1967, during the speculation boom in Antelope Valley, developers artificially refilled a dried up lake and named it
Lake Los Angeles as an enticement to landbuyers. Advertisements (like the one I posted above...mine has a sailboat) showed a water skier on the lake (which was probably no more than 5 feet) giving the impression of a
resort town.
Streets were named '
Biglake Ave.', '
Lakespring Ave.' and '
Longmeadow Ave.' to draw attention away from the fact the town was a barren desert used for filming westerns (the aforementioned '
buttes'). The lake eventually dried up again in the early 1980s. Much of the land was sold to people who never visited the area.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lo...es,_California
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