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This 3-page book examines Davis' City of Quartz, and discusses the history of and comparison with the various parts of the city of Fontana.
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of racial battles, economic disparity and social classism isnt a whole lot different than it was during the 1840s, when the state was settled. At that time, of course, there
was warfare (outright and not) between the Spanish who had settled there and the Americans who had spread west. One of the
cities he focuses on, however, is Fontana, California, what he classifies as a "Junkyard of Dreams" (which, fittingly enough, is also the name of the chapter describing this particular area.
This is an area that Davis describes as the roughest in the county, the county, of course, being San Bernardino, which is predominantly upper middle class - except for Fontana.
But this is a city with a split personality - "over the course of the seventy-five years since its founding," Davis writes on page 376, "Fontana has been both junkyard
and utopia for a successive tropes of a changing California dream." Though today the city is a slum, less than 100 years
ago, it was a "modernized Jeffersonian idyll," a community containing both chicken- and citrus-growers "living self-sufficiently in their electrified bungalows." Fontana, during those days, could have been considered a true
agricultural commune, with most people looking out for the other, in which agricultural products were the primary focus of barter. The concept
of Fontana Farms (the original name) was launched by A.B. Miller, who was a contractor and agriculturalist based in San Bernardino. Miller helped spearhead "a unique civilization of affluent agricultural
colonies," ones that were self-sufficient. But Fontana had its own industrial revolution during the 1940s as "the community was abruptly reshaped to
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