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Old 08-22-2017, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Challenger View Post
Coincidentally ,the fastest growing and quickest disappearing large development in the US sprung up on the Irvine Ranch in 1953. Overnight the empty cattle grazing area became a city of over 50,00 young people -almost all under 19 yrs old males. Less than two weeks later the site was complete vacant again.

I know this for a fact as I was one of the Scouts attending the 1953 National Jamboree
Afterwhich the powers that were named a thoroughfare Jamboree!
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