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Bob Hope’s 7,400 Acres

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The Santa Monica Mountains certainly don’t need any more gated communities and golf courses. The entire Southern California community would appreciate Hope selling/donating land to be used as parkland. What greater legacy could he leave but a park named Hope Family Forest! Better yet would be Bob Hope National Park.

MELBA A. SIMMS

Woodland Hills

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