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...only the Irvine Ranch (TIME, Sept. 22) but also Valencia and Janss-Thousand Oaks are being transformed into cities by the families that once only farmed them. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is converting its onetime cotton farm outside Phoenix, Ariz., into Litchfield Park, a planned town for 100,000. McCulloch Oil Corp. has attracted more than 2,500 settlers to its resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City in the sparsely inhabited Arizona desert along the Colorado River. Humble Oil's Clear Lake City, which is on 23,000 acres of oil and gas-bearing grassland near Houston...
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA Frank McCulloch, D.LET., Hong Kong bureau chief, TIME-LIFE News Service...
...Havasu (the name means "blue water" in Navaho) lures newcomers with its sun (annual rainfall is a mere five inches), space, desert air and trout-filled lake, made to order for thousands of fishermen, campers, water skiers and motorboat racers. It was the lake that caught the fancy of McCulloch Oil President Robert Paxton McCulloch, now 56, when he first flew over it in 1958. McCulloch, who is also the world's largest manufacturer of chain saws and No. 3 maker of outboard motors, was searching for a freshwater site on which to test his engines. After buying...
Along with the fishing camp came a patchwork holding of 3,530 acres and an abandoned World War II airstrip. Before McCulloch was able to buy an adjoining 12,990 acres (at $73 an acre) from the state of Arizona, he had to convince state officials that his plan would increase tax revenues. To create 25-sq.-mi. Havasu City, he gambled $500,000 on surveys, plans and engineering, even though the prospect looked so risky that C. V. Wood, 46, onetime Disneyland general manager and Convair chief industrial engineer, who is now Havasu City's master planner, told...
...McCulloch's town began inauspiciously enough in 1964, with 40 dwelling units, three miles of unpaved road, and a population of 160. Today, it has grown into a palm-dotted development of 550 homes and apartments, 54 miles of paved streets, 105 businesses including a bank, a shopping center, a pizza parlor, bowling alley and six restaurants, and a golf course. Though most of the carefully controlled architecture is uninspired, Wood added a Disneyland touch to the Lake Havasu Hotel by running a waterfall over its roof...