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Paramount is located at 33°53'60" North, 118°9'60" West (33.899915, -118.166651) 1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.5 km˛ (4.8 mi˛). 12.3 km˛ (4.7 mi˛) of it is land and 0.3 km˛ (0.1 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 2.07% water.
Before Paramount became a city in 1957, the area was made up of two small communities called Hynes and Clearwater. The towns were home to a number of dairies, which in their heyday had 25,000 cows. By the early 1930s, in fact, Hynes boasted the largest hay market in the world, handling 135,837 tons in 1932 ( Kansas City was second that year, with 111,943 tons). Each morning under the "Hay tree" (still to be found at Paramount Blvd. near Harrison St.), the day's price of hay was set, then quoted around the world.
Another landmark in the history of early Paramount was Iceland, an ice skating rinkAn ice rink is a frozen body of water where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Some of its uses include a playing field for ice hockey, figure skating exhibitions and contests, and ice shows. Many ice rinks consist of, or are found on, open bodie opened by Frank J. Zamboni in
1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F. The facility has been a training ground forprofessional skaters throughout the years, from Sonia Henie to Dorothy HamillDorothy Hamill is an American figure skater who was born July 26, 1956 at Chicago, Illinois, here parents moved to Riverside, Connecticut shortly after she was born, where she spent the rest of her childhood. She had a brother and a sister. She first star to the youngsters who learn the sport there today. Zamboni also became well known for inventing the Zamboni Ice-Resurfacing machine, which is used in ice rinks around the world. The machines are still manufactured exclusively in Paramount.
As land uses in Los Angeles County changed, and the dairies left for other areas, Paramount met the challenges of an evolving urban city. For its efforts, Paramount was named an " All-America CityAll-America City Program Logo The All-America City Award is given by the National Civic League annually to ten cities in the United States. The award is the oldest and most respected community recognition program in the nation and recognizes communities w" by the National Civic LeagueThe National Civic League is an organization founded in 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at a meeting of civic leaders, policy-makers, journalists, and educators (including Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, Marshall Field, and Frederick Law Olmsted) t in 1988, and many of its innovative programs have attracted state and national recognition.