 Los Angeles had become a mecca for job-seekers and a refuge for new arrivals from the frozen East Coast.Postwar Los Angeles was emerging as an increasingly cosmopolitan city, and many of Boddy's editorial policies seemed quaint to the city's new residents.Boddy spent less and less time at the newspaper as he focused his energies on his estate, Descanso Gardens, in La Cañada, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.