| While it is the fifth largest city in Los Angeles County, | | | | 8. The first United States President to visit Pomona |
| not a lot of attention is paid to the city of Pomona, | | | | was Benjamin Harrison who stopped at the Southern |
| California. Pomona has a little over 150,000 people living | | | | Pacific Rail Station while en route to Los Angeles. |
| there and though it was founded in the late 1800s as a | | | | 9. Cal Poly Pomona is the second largest, when |
| primarily agricultural community, it has grown to | | | | ranked by land area, campus in the entire system of |
| become more and more industrial over time. Here is a | | | | California State Universities. |
| look at thirteen little known facts about the city of | | | | 10. For a brief period of approximately three and a half |
| Pomona, California. | | | | months during World War II in 1942, the L.A. County |
| 1. The Los Angeles County Fair, or L.A. County Fair, is | | | | Fairgrounds in Pomona were used as an assembly |
| held yearly in Pomona and is the largest county fair in | | | | center where Japanese-Americans were temporarily |
| the entire United States. | | | | held before being dispersed to various internment |
| 2. Western University of Health Sciences is located | | | | camps. |
| within the city and was founded somewhat recently in | | | | 11. The Pomona Mall is an outdoor pedestrian mall that |
| 1977, during its first year it had a total enrollment of 36. | | | | stretches over nine blocks long. This was the first mall |
| 3. In 1887, Pomona College was founded in the city of | | | | of its kind built west of the Mississippi River. |
| Pomona only to relocate to the city of Claremont, | | | | 12. The city of Pomona is named after Pomona, the |
| California two years later when an unused hotel | | | | Roman goddess of fruit. |
| building was donated for the school's use. | | | | 13. The city has regulations that limit when a family can |
| 4. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | | | | hold a yard sale. The city designates usually four or |
| (known as Cal Poly Pomona) is partially located on | | | | five weekends a year that yard sales are permitted. |
| what was once the personal ranch of breakfast | | | | The city of Pomona plays an important role in the life |
| cereal maker W.K. Kellogg. | | | | of Southern California, and the Los Angeles area in |
| 5. Some of the people who have been born in or | | | | particular. Many important companies are |
| resided in the city of Pomona, California include: Jessica | | | | headquartered there and both Cal Poly Pomona and |
| Alba, "Sugar" Shane Mosley, Tom Waits, Rich Yett, | | | | Western University of Health Sciences contribute |
| Mark McGwire, and Richie Sandoval. | | | | greatly to the area both by the jobs they create and |
| 6. People from Pomona, California are known as | | | | the quality of students they turn out. Pomona has a |
| Pomonans. | | | | unique history and is a great place for anyone visiting |
| 7. Between 1900 and 1910, the population of the city | | | | Southern California to come and see. |
| nearly doubled. | | | | |