The lawyers, doctors, business and entertainment people who now live in Hidden Hills make it one of the wealthiest cities in the state, but in the early days residents had more modest occupations: police officers, firefighters, teachers and engineers. “Once they bought a house,” says Alice ...
Sterling McIlhany, 65, who lives in a low-income apartment, remembers the day he found a distraught and bewildered elderly condominium resident standing in front of the building. “She had that hollow-eyed look,” recalled McIlhany, who said the 80-year-old woman was near hysteria because a...
- Inflation-adjusted price: $2.02 (#8 least expensive year in 84-year span) From 1995 to 1996, gas prices jumped substantially, and some cities hit prices far above the national average. Somepumps in New York City spikedas high as $1.56 per gallon. Analysts blamed the price hikes on th...