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| Los Angeles has changed a lot since actor/director/writer/producer and honorary Los Angeles cop Jack Webb last spoke that famous line in the Dragnet radio, movie, and TV shows. From humble beginnings in 1781 when the natives were running around barefoot and eating grasshoppers, Los Angeles has since grown to become a modern metropolis today. The 115 city block Los Angeles Fashion District is the largest in the nation and second largest in the world. Los Angeles International Airport is the world's fifth busiest. The Los Angeles Jewelry District is the nations largest. Los Angeles has more world renouned art and cultural centers (more than 300) than any other city in the world. Los Angeles is the world's most photographed city. The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest in the U.S. and the world's 7th busiest. More studios and celebrities call Los Angeles home. More celebrities are also native born Los Angelean's. Los Angeles is situated on the Pacific coast of Southern California. Unlike the mild climate of the Bay Area, Los Angeles's climate is temperate which can cause unexpected changes in the weather. What may start out as a sunny day in August could end with an afternoon thunder shower or a blustery cold day in December could turn into a heat wave the next day. Los Angeles temperature extremes can vary from below freezing to the low 100s. Although snow falls on the mountains of Los Angeles county each winter, snow has fallen somewhere within the city of Los Angeles only 20 times in the last 100 years, the heaviest nearly 2 inches that blanketed the City Center on January 15, 1932. Remnants of late summer hurricanes off Baja California can influence Los Angeles weather by creating severe storm conditions of lightning, thunder, hail, high winds and heavy rain. Then there's Catalina Eddy. Instead of passing through the area storms are trapped in a continuous counter-clock rotation until enough high pressure sets in to move it out. A Catalina Eddy which also keeps the area socked in with low thick clouds during late Spring and early Fall is responsible for flooding when a storm gets trapped in it for days. During certain times of the year the famous Santa Ana winds kick up as wind gusts in the city have reached 80 MPH and more than 100 MPH in the local mountain passes and high deserts. Los Angeles is bordered by the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and the majestic snow covered San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains to the east, making it possible for Los Angelean's to go snow boarding during the morning then a few hours later be surfing at the beach. During Spring it is sometimes common to see cars, SUVs and minivans with both snowboards and surfboards sharing the same roof rack. To get around this city much of the population travels by freeway. However, 2.2 million commuters in metropolitan Los Angeles use public transit which includes buses, a modern heavy rail subway system, light rail and a commuter rail system. The Los Angeles public transportation system is the second largest and one of the most used public transit systems in the country. Tourists who use the Los Angeles public transit system have pleasantly discovered that riding trains and buses is the easiest and most inexpensive way to get around this city to see the attractions. Sure beats the high cost of renting a car, buying expensive gas, figuring out confusing road maps, driving in mostly congested traffic alongside rude and sometimes dangerous drivers, then searching (or fighting) for that precious and expensive parking spot like they do on the Westside and Santa Monica. Los Angeles is a favorite city among preservationists and architects. That's because as other cities were trying to redevelop their downtowns by demolishing the old and building the new, Los Angeles merely moved the downtown center further west along with new construction and left the old downtown behind and largely intact. That old downtown which includes the Historic Core, the Old Bank District and other historic areas is a collection of nearly two thousand pre-World War II buildings and sixteen historic movie palaces of which twelve line Broadway. These areas which has literally remained unchanged since the 1930s have become popular residential areas as well as favorite filming locations for the studios where it is quite possible to encounter film, TV, or other production activity, especially on weekends. Whether you are planning a trip to Los Angeles or currently live here, whether you're a native or a newcomer, this site was created as a reference guide to provide you with historic and current information about this world class city. Important Notes: This web site features thumbnails (tiny pictures like those above on the right) which you can click on to provide large images (go ahead, try it). On many pages there are highlighted underlined words (like this) that are within sentences which you can click on to produce images. Please take advantage of these for a more enjoyable visit to this site. Downloading some of these pages may be ridiculously slow due to our scrapbook style and the huge amounts of images that needs to be downloaded. We're working on it! TABLE OF CONTENTS Attractions 1 Popular Los Angeles attractions. Attractions 2 Popular Los Angeles attractions. Attractions 3 Popular Los Angeles attractions. Transit System Subways, light rail and commuter trains. Downtown City Center Popular destination for tourists and locals. UPDATES! Motion Picture Industry Why it's here and how it all got started. Movie Palaces World's largest grouping of pre-1940 art deco theatres. Natives Celebrities who were born here. Authors About us. Tourist Info Answers to popular questions visitors ask about Los Angeles. Links Links to some of the many great sites about Los Angeles. Most Popular Places A thousand people took our survey (IN DEVELOPMENT) |
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| Los Angeles is among the world's most beloved cities. What was at one time a rough uncivilized town of the old West where public hangings were common in the 1800s has blossomed into a modern world class city of today. |
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| Statistics and other information were provided by: Charles Willis, James Sutton, Spencer Crump, Carmen Mesa, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Almanac, Los Angeles World Airports, Los Angeles Conservancy, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metropolitan Theatres, Southern California Regional Rail Authority, Los Angeles World Port Authority, Los Angeles Business Improvement District, The Weather Network, Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, U.S. Census Bureau. Photos courtesy of: Brigham Yen, Martin Schall's you-are-here.com (see links), Tom Willett, Wataru Ebihara, Ari Schindler, Bruce Petty, Salaam Allah, Shawna Reese, Dave Lucas, Jesica Perry, James Campbell (see links), transit-rider.com, KABC-7, Security Pacific National Bank Archive Collection, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Herald Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, University of Southern California Archives, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Title Insurance Company, Los Angeles Conservancy, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles University Cathedral, Los Angeles Downtown News, Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Cartifact, Lawrence & Denny (authors). |
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