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1 day ago · Los Angeles, city, seat of Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the U.S. Home of the American entertainment industry, the city is also known for its pleasant weather, urban sprawl, traffic, beaches, and ethnic and racial diversity.
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Los Angeles - Entertainment, Aerospace, Tourism: Southern...
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Los Angeles - City of Angels, Hollywood, Pacific Coast: For...
- The Entertainment Industry
Los Angeles - Entertainment, Movies, TV: The media business,...
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Los Angeles - Traffic, Rail, Air: Automobile-dependent Los...
- Inventing a City
Los Angeles - Inventing, Boomtown, Diversity: Los Angeles’s...
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The Los Angeles area is renowned for its institutions of...
- 1920S, 1930S, Boomtown
Los Angeles - 1920s, 1930s, Boomtown: In the 1920s, irate...
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Virtually any architectural style can be found in Los...
- The Contemporary City
The contemporary city. During the city’s 1981 bicentennial...
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Channel Islands, island chain extending some 150 miles (240...
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2 days ago · The majority of the city proper lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending partly through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to its east.
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3 days ago · The influence of the Spanish settlers of the 18th and 19th centuries is evident in California’s architecture and place-names. The capital is Sacramento.
3 days ago · The state capital is Sacramento; the largest city is Los Angeles. Other major cities are San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, and Long Beach. Spoken languages are English (60%) and Spanish or Spanish Creole (26%). Largest airports in California are: Los Angeles International Airport ( IATA code: LAX)
4 days ago · Hollywood, district within the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S., whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beverly Boulevard (south), the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains (north), and Beverly Hills (west).
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- Hollywood is a district within the city of Los Angeles, whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. It is also called Tinseltown.
- Hollywood is in Los Angeles, California. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beve...
- Hollywood was laid out as a subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, who was a prohibitionist from Kansas. However, real-estate magnate H.J. Whitley t...
- Daeida Wilcox gave Hollywood its name. She was the wife of Harvey Wilcox, who owned the area and in 1887 submitted a subdivision map to the Los Ang...
- The iconic Hollywood sign was originally erected in 1923. However, the sign did not read “Hollywood” but “Hollywoodland”; its purpose was advertisi...
6 days ago · Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center, and Orange County to the southeast.
4 days ago · In 1835, the Mexican Congress declared Los Angeles a city, making it the official capital of Alta California. It was now the region's leading city. The same period also saw the arrival of many foreigners from the United States and Europe.
