Torrance, California

Torrance is a suburb of Los Angeles with over 100,000 people, found between Long Beach and the airport, near the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Although the town is fairly large, it is charactarized by mainly residential areas and malls, with a large Mobil refinery near the eastern part of town. Torrance contains largely Asian and White residents, and many senior citizens For the most part Torrance is pretty boring, the activity of choice is to drive into a neighboring town such as Manhattan Beach or into Los Angeles. Nearby landmarks are the aforementioned beach, Palos Verdes (full of make-out points), the Del Amo Mall, madrona 'marsh', etc.. I know of one band, the Deviates, who came from torrance. Other than that, it lacks the musical diversity of Orange County, which it somewhat resembles at times.

Dirk Diggler was from Torrance - the only pop culture reference to this city I've seen.

Some of the other things found in Torrance include:

• Toyota's American sales headquarters
• Honda's American operations
• A good amount of DVDs are made in Torrance.
• Some fairly famous people were raised in and around the Torrance area. They include auto racing great Parnelli Jones was raised here, film star Chuck Norris, figure skater Michelle Kwan, and professional baseball player Jason Kendall.
• Portions of several movies and television shows have been filmed here, including Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Beverly Hills 90210

Torrance is also somewhat famous for its maverick police officers. The officers are not afraid to spin a car out on Interstate 405. Driving While black is still an "offense" to some degree.

Although, to a great degree, the large suburb of Los Angeles is best known for being a quiet area, especially compared to the better-known beach communities of Hermosa Beach or Manhattan Beach