Editing Fullerton, California (section)

===Boom years===
[[File:LouisPlummerAuditorium01c.jpg|thumb|[[Fullerton Union High School]]'s auditorium, built 1930–32]]
[[File:Fullerton up depot (2383278131) (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Union Pacific]] depot, built 1923]]

Drilling for [[petroleum]] began in 1880 with the discovery of the [[Brea-Olinda Oil Field]] and fueled the first real boom, peaking in the 1920s. Construction reflected the vogue for Spanish Colonial and [[Architectural history#Italian Renaissance architecture|Italian Renaissance–inspired]] architecture, as in the historic [[Fox Theatre (Fullerton)|Fox Fullerton Theatre]] (erected 1925); the [[Muckenthaler House]], designed by Frank K. Benchley (erected 1924); and the city's chief landmark, the Plummer Auditorium and clock tower (erected 1930). [[Fullerton College]] was established at its present location at Chapman Avenue and Lemon Street in 1913. Meanwhile, the city banned all overnight street parking in 1924 – a law enforced to the present day, unless an area is specifically exempted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cityoffullerton.com/resident/neighborhood/overnight_parking.asp|title=Overnight Parking|publisher=City of Fullerton |access-date=December 10, 2018 |archive-date=December 10, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210202655/https://www.cityoffullerton.com/resident/neighborhood/overnight_parking.asp}}</ref>

In 1943, the Alex Bernal residence became the site of one of the first successful lawsuits against household [[Covenant (law)|covenant laws]] in the country after Alex and Esther Bernal purchased a home in a Fullerton neighborhood that barred purchases from "Mexicans." After a [[home invasion]] that resulted in their belongings being thrown into the street and a petition signed by fifty neighborhood residents to have the Bernal's removed from the neighborhood, a lawsuit was issued against the Bernals on the basis that their presence caused "irreparable injury" to the neighborhood that could lead to "coming in contact with said other races, including Mexicans, in a social and neighborhood manner." Lawyer David C. Marcus represented the Bernals in ''Doss vs. Bernal'' and won the case, which received national attention.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lewinnek |first1=Elaine |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1226813397 |title=A people's guide to Orange County |date=2022 |first2=Gustavo |last2=Arellano |first3=Thuy |last3=Vo Dang |isbn=978-0-520-97155-4 |location=Oakland, California |pages=77–78 |oclc=1226813397 |publisher=University of California Press }}</ref>

In 1949, [[Leo Fender]] developed and refined the world's first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar, the [[Fender Telecaster]].