Some pics from a 1945 issue of LIFE magazine I have. Article featuring up & coming lifestyles of varying socioeconomic classes in the former Golden State. 

Seems strange now, seeing Glendale almost resembling Western frontier.

The working class family living well on $60 a week. SoCal's good ol' days.

I return to the first photo in this post, and wonder did that couple in the futuristic car (and/or maybe their descendants), fulfill their optimistic, Jetsons-like future in California ?

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