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Paramount incorporated on January 30, 1957, after residents ran a 'Save Paramount for Paramount' campaign to block annexation by Long Beach, Bellflower, and South Gate.

The modern community of Paramount was created in 1948, when the U.S. Postmaster General merged the post offices of the two older settlements of Hynes and Clearwater, and the new city took its name from Paramount Boulevard.

Inventor Frank J. Zamboni was one of the men who helped bring Hynes and Clearwater together to form Paramount in the late 1940s.

Paramount is the birthplace of the Zamboni ice resurfacer: Frank J. Zamboni built the world's first self-propelled ice resurfacing machine, the Model A, in Paramount in 1949, founded his company here, and the company has since delivered more than 12,000 machines worldwide.

The restored original Model A Zamboni is on display at Paramount Iceland, the ice rink Frank Zamboni and his brother opened in Paramount in 1940.

In the early 1930s Paramount's predecessor town of Hynes hosted the largest hay market in the world, handling 135,837 tons of hay in 1932 alone.

Paramount's Hay Tree, a designated California Historical Landmark, was the spot under which the daily price of hay was set and quoted around the world during the town's hay and dairy era.

At the height of Paramount's dairy era some 25,000 cows were kept in the area, although the last dairy in the city closed in 1977.

Paramount's land originated in two Spanish-era ranchos, Rancho San Pedro on the west side and Rancho Los Nietos on the east.

Paramount had a population of 53,733 at the 2020 census, with about 14,600 households averaging 3.54 people each, among the largest household sizes in Los Angeles County.