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Vor 19 Stunden · The original name of the settlement is disputed; the Guinness Book of World Records rendered it as "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula"; other sources have shortened or alternate versions of the longer name. The local English pronunciation of the name of the city has varied over time.
Vor einem Tag · The Los Angeles City Oil Field was the first of many fields in the basin to be exploited, and in 1900 and 1902, respectively, the Beverly Hills Oil Field and Salt Lake Oil Field were discovered a few miles west of the original find. Los Angeles became a center of oil production in the early 20th century, and by 1923, the region was producing ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Los Angeles, the heart of southern California, became a world-class city very recently. At the start of the 20th century it was considered merely “a large village.” This ascendancy is all the more remarkable considering that the city originally lacked some of the essential building blocks associated with cityhood, such as a ...
Vor einem Tag · Hollywood, district within the city of Los Angeles, California, whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. It was laid out as a real-estate subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, and H.J. Whitley, known as the ‘Father of Hollywood,’ later transformed it into a wealthy and popular residential area.
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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...
Vor 2 Tagen · Los Angeles’ original name was “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula”, which means “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Porciúncula”. What is LA named after? Los Angeles was named after the Virgin Mary, Queen of the Angels of the Porcincula River near Assisi, home of Saint Francis.
Vor 4 Tagen · Built in 1961 by architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman, the LAX Theme Building was influenced by the “Googie” and “Popluxe” design schools and part of the Los Angeles Jet Age ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Meanwhile, in the NBA the Los Angeles Lakers won championships in 1980 and 1982 en route to winning five titles in that decade, in the MLB the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in 1981 and 1988, and even in the NHL the Los Angeles Kings made a deep run in the playoffs in 1982, and acquired fan interest following the arrival of Wayne Gretzky in 1988. As a result, the Rams declined ...
