Referenced In

Travels
by Michael Crichton, Baber, E. C. Baber

"She was staying in a little house in Torrance, California. She seemed edgy, and hovered near her husband, a big, hulking fellow."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"Then when they opened the Torrance plant, they moved me over there. My wife got a job in the Torrance plant, too. They do Toyota subassemblies."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"I'm not Japanese," he said seriously. "I'm Japanese-American, which means in their eyes I'm gaijin. If I go to Japan, they treat me like any other foreigner. It doesn't matter how I look, I was born in Torrance — and that's the end of it."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"Now it's the Japanese research labs like Hitachi in Long Beach, Sanyo in Torrance, Canon in Inglewood."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"“It was a bill from the Edwards Fine Art Display Company of Torrance, California, for construction of a wooden pedestal to support a statue of a Buddha.”"

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"It’s true there are a zillion places no one in his right mind would like: Lakewood, Torrance, Brea, Compton, Carson, no one real lived there, any more than real people lived in those grey asphalt boxes that line the roads between New York’s airport and its island."

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"Carson, Hawthorne, Culver City, South Gate, and Torrance are all designated by a working-class cactus green."