Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182 pp., 1886
3. Abbot Kinney and His Trees
"The land boom of the 1880s reversed the area's downward trend and saw the population of Los Angeles grow from 12,000 to 87,000. For Santa Monica the magic year was 1886, when subdivisions multiplied and work was begun on the elegant Hotel Arcadia. Southern Pacific trains made four round trips to Santa Monica on weekdays, six on Sundays . . .
"In November of that year [1886], Santa Monica was incorporated . . . "