Images

Images covers 17.9 acres and the city's address layer records 153 addresses inside the boundary across 160 parcels, on 0.97 miles of street with lots running to a median of 0.075 acres. Seven streets serve it and five carry English names: Cambridge, Coventry, Kensington, Oxford, Stratford and Windsor, with Rostrata Avenue on the edge.

Images Park sits inside the boundary, a fifth of an acre at 5610 Stratford Avenue, and it is the only park in the city's register that carries the same name as the neighborhood around it. The city zones 17.8 of the 17.9 acres for 6,000 square foot one family residential lots. Mail carries the 90621 zip code, and the neighborhood feeds Charles G. Emery Elementary, Gordon H. Beatty Middle and Buena Park High.

Seven streets serve this small community and six of them are English: Cambridge, Coventry, Kensington, Oxford, Stratford and Windsor. That is two university towns, a London borough, a cathedral city, Shakespeare's birthplace and the castle, which is about as concentrated a piece of England as a Californian street index can hold. About 153 homes sit on 18 acres at a middle lot size near a thirteenth of an acre, so these are attached homes rather than the detached ranch houses that fill most of Buena Park.

Then it was built all at once. The county assessor carries a year built for 123 of the homes here and every one of them reads 1990, and nothing inside the boundary is older than that. English naming was a common counterweight in a city whose western half is almost entirely Spanish, and within a few minutes' drive the streets run san, santa, el, la, los and via, so a buyer crossing from one grid to the next can feel the change of register.