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.