In folder labeled: Housing - miscellaneous. Notes in folder describe various public housing projects in California and Flordia, and for the Farm Security Administration.
Typed note on back of photograph: 9-16-60 MAA14272 Aerial oblique of construction por. Gress at NAS LeMoore, Calif., View showing capehart housing looking East. Offical Photograph Not to be used for publication unless officially released.
The Rancho Drive-In in San Diego was built in the same year (1948) as the Edwards Drive-In in Arcadia. Although no construction photos survive, the construction technique was presumably similar. In this example, Lee used the street side of the screen structure to feature a colorful mural-like scene of the Mexican landscape illuminated from behind, a cultural reference appropriate to the border city of San Diego.
Lakewood's shopping center in the foreground is surrounded by vacant fields. The houses of the new community are going up in the background. An older village, Quincy, at lower left, will soon be surrounded by the new town. Two blocks at left center are marked as designated for a "City College."