MILLENNIUM MOMENT

Edward G. Warmington joined his father’s construction firm in 1933,

working for $2 a day making mud for masons. From those humble beginnings,

he helped the company grow to become the 10th-largest homebuilder in

California, a force that radically transformed Southern California.

The Costa Mesa-based company Warmington Homes created almost 20,000 homes

in the area between 1953 and 1983. And though Warmington eventually lived

in Newport Beach, early on he lived in one of the tract homes he had

helped build. The house payments were $28 a month.

* MILLENNIUM MOMENT celebrates the people who have made a major

contribution to the Newport-Mesa community during this century.