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By Frank M. Roseman,Peter J. Watry

After many many years of being an agricultural group and lemon capital, an aircraft-parts producer moved to Chula Vista. In 1940, Rohr plane company arrived and, as a result of the call for for employees and housing for them, the rural city was once on its solution to changing into a bed room neighborhood. the town grew quickly because of the improvement of a giant ranch and the development of 25,000 homes.

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