Cortese and his wife, Alona Marlowe Cortese. Leisure World houses approximately 9, residents in 6, one- and two-bedroom apartments and condominiums. After building a small development in Culver City , the couple began undertaking larger projects such as Frematic Homes in Anaheim. Nonetheless, the couple's study of medical services drew their attention to the health and housing needs of older adults, whose numbers were growing rapidly in the post-war period.
None has answered the attendant economic, medical and sociological needs of the majority of our senior citizens. One of the most important amenities was a plan offering free on-site medical care and prescriptions as part of the monthly resident's fees, again a first in a U. Rossmoor Leisure World as it was initially named was to be built on a portion of the Hellman Ranch in what was then an un-incorporated square-mile plot in Orange County.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. One, the Leisure World Foundation, would supervise the project's construction and marketing. When residents began to move in, there would be elections from among the residents to serve on the Golden Rain Foundation GRF as trustees for all the development's common facilities and to provide community-wide services such as recreation and security.
Notwithstanding the awkward governing arrangement, construction of the Seal Beach Leisure World began in mid The Life advertisement was part of what is thought to be the first national mass-marketing campaign for a housing project.
Edgar Hoover Foundation; [ 31 ] and executive vice president Kenneth E. BeLieu , the former undersecretary of both the U.
