Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1956
"It is true that the Santa Monica Mall project was under way when he [Perry Scott] came to Santa Monica [1965], it having been suggested in the general plan which the city adopted in 1956 . . . a concept which was picked up enthusiastically by the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, and especially by Paul Priolo, later an Assemblyman and then leader in the mercantile community.
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