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Los Angeles
Most populous city in California, United States
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City in California, United States
Los Angeles | |
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| Nicknames: L.A., City of Angels,[1]The Entertainment Capital of the World,[1] La-la-land, Tinseltown[1] | |
| Coordinates: 34°03′N118°15′W / 34.050°N 118.250°W / 34.050; -118.250 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| Region | Southern California |
| CSA | Los Angeles-Long Beach |
| MSA | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim |
| Pueblo | September 4, 1781[2] |
| City status | May 23, 1835[3] |
| Incorporated | April 4, 1850[4] |
| Named for | Our Lady, Queen of the Angels |
| • Type | Mayor-council[5] |
| • Body | Los Angeles City Council |
| • Mayor | Karen Bass (D) |
| • City Attorney | Hydee Feldstein Soto (D) |
| • City Controller | Kenneth M
Meet Your GovernmentHistorically, the areas of present day Los Angeles was home to the Chumash and Tongva Native American tribes. On September 4, 1781 a group of settlers consisting of 14 families numbering 44 individuals of Native American, African and European heritage journeyed more than one-thousand miles across the desert from present-day northern Mexico and established a farming community in the area naming it "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula" which in English translated to "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula". Over time this community would grow under the flags of Spain, Mexico and eventually the United States to become one of the largest metropolitan cities in the world, the City of Los Angeles. Today, the original pueblo is commemorated as a Los Angeles Historical Monument. The El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is a living museum that continues to fulfill its unique role as the historic and symbolic heart of the City, reflecting the Native American, African American, Spanish, Anglo, M
The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Life StoriesFor our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most essential L.A. memoirs and biographies, from Hollywood tell-alls to immigrant sagas, hard lives (Luis J. Rodriguez) and spectacular flameouts (Freeway Rick Ross).
… Adobe Days by Sarah Bixby Smith, 1925 The book’s subtitle reads, in part, “Being the Truthful Narrative of the Events in the Life of a California Girl on a Sheep Ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles While It Was Yet a Small and Humble Town.” From 1866-81, the Bixby family owned Rancho Los Cerritos (now a museum) in Long Beach. Although Smith’s well-meaning memoir is not free of the prejudices of its day, it provides an intimate look at Southern California’s remote agrarian past. — CK Laughing in the Jungle by Louis Ada Copyright ©bilders.pages.dev 2025 |