Quotes 2017 #318

"But there was money about, and there were local moguls---Henry Huntington, who ran streetcar lines; and Abbot Kinney, who made a fortune from his vast tobacco company---who decided they could manufacture a beach culture. So they concocted plans to develop separate and competing portions of the coastline, each tycoon vying for the leisured pursuits of the new leisured class." (Simon Winchester, Pacific.)