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unusual facts about retirement community



Rossmoor, California

(It was Gittelson who later agreed to annex his Rossmoor Shopping Center property to Seal Beach in the 1960s.) After Rossmoor, Cortese would construct the first of his very successful Leisure World gated retirement community in that part of Seal Beach which is immediately south of Rossmoor.


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Circle City, Arizona

The development was built in the late 1950s by the The Workmen's Circle, a Jewish fraternal and mutual aid society with roots in the Socialist movement of the early 20th century, as a retirement community for its aging members.

Goodnight Gracie

Cam (Eric Stonestreet) meets a few residents of the retirement community and seeing that they have some common interests, he is spending time with them, talking about books and playing Mahjong.

Huntley, Illinois

Huntley is best known for its Prime Outlets mall and Sun City retirement community, the largest in the Midwest.

Leisure World, Seal Beach, California

The same company developed several other Leisure Worlds around the United States, and started, but did not complete the Rossmoor gated retirement community in Walnut Creek, California.

Menifee, California

Early development of the Menifee area began with Sun City in the early 1960s as the concept of an active retirement community envisioned by Del Webb, a building contractor from Phoenix, Arizona.

Rossmoor, California

The gated Leisure World retirement community in the city of Seal Beach is to the south of Rossmoor, Los Alamitos is to the east and north, and Long Beach is to the west (on the other side of the San Gabriel River, the 605 freeway and the border with Los Angeles County).

Sun City Texas

:*Murray Wier, a former college basketball All-American and National Basketball Association (NBA) player, is a resident of the retirement community.