Garden Grove Ca Incorporation

Hollywood had a pretty good year in 1956. Among the movies screening at the time were hits about a giant white whale, a beautiful but batty saloon singer, a suave jewel thief and a capering journey around the world in a balloon. Garden Grove also looks back fondly on 1956 as the year the city was incorporated. Garden Grove and Hollywood don't have much else to connect them, but good memories of 1956 were enough for John Bushman, the city's public relations director.

Hollywood had a pretty good year in 1956. Among the movies screening at the time were hits about a giant white whale, a beautiful but batty saloon singer, a suave jewel thief and a capering journey around the world in a balloon. Garden Grove also looks back fondly on 1956 as the year the city was incorporated. Garden Grove and Hollywood don't have much else to connect them, but good memories of 1956 were enough for John Bushman, the city's public relations director.

From the front window of his family-owned market on Main Street, Leo Zlaket has watched Garden Grove grow from an unincorporated town filled with orange groves and strawberry fields to a sea of houses and apartment buildings. "We had a nice little community," said Zlaket, who was 14 at the time of the city's incorporation in 1956. "There were orange groves as far as you could see. When we were kids, we used to play hide and seek in the groves. There were only about 2,000 residents at that time."

From the front window of his family-owned market on Main Street, Leo Zlaket has watched Garden Grove grow from an unincorporated town filled with orange groves and strawberry fields to a sea of houses and apartment buildings. "We had a nice little community," said Zlaket, who was 14 at the time of the city's incorporation in 1956. "There were orange groves as far as you could see. When we were kids, we used to play hide and seek in the groves. There were only about 2,000 residents at that time."