BIG CITIES
JANUARY 15, 2022
Los Angeles : A Brief Story Of Angels City
Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States with various vacation spots and entertainment centers.
One of the most important city in United States and the world is Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles has strong economic base in farming, oil tourism, real estate and movies.
The motion picture industry grow rapidly and made the city world famous for its giant movie studios like Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, MGM and Warner Bros pictures. All these Hollywood stars, TV and movie industries and beautiful beaches make LA a very famous city and a popular tourism spot.
Before Los Angeles became the center of the film industry, it was covered in wetlands and farmland. European came and later formed the city with streets and buildings, converting about a third of those wetlands.
The World War II brought new industry to the city, especially high tech aircraft companies. Tourism, entertainment and technology remain strong. After the WW II the city became the second-largest city in the United States with ethnically diverse and unfortunately, some bad sides.
Bad things about Los Angeles are smog, homelessness, high cost of housing, traffic along with high cost of living. But you can find the good sides like weather, beaches various cultural diversity of food, music and entertainment.
For food lovers Los Angeles offers various delicious culinary dishes. Because of its nature as a melting pot from around the world, there are so many kind of food you can find here. Tacos, a Mexican food, is the most popular one considering the location of the city is so close to Mexico. Other are Korean, Thai, Japanese (mainly sushi and ramen), Chinese and locals like donuts and burgers.
The area of the present-day Los Angeles County was first settled by small groups of Native Americans for centuries. In 1542, Spanish navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to sight the region that is present-day California. At the time there were about 130,000 Native Americans inhabiting the area.
The first European contact was happened in 1769 when Gaspar de Portola and a group of missionaries built a camp site on the banks of the Los Angeles River. In 1781, a new settlement was established along that river.
Some Mexican families from Sonora founded a town in the area and the Spanish governor of California named the settlement. In 1777, Governor Felipe de Neve toured Alta California and decided to name the settlement El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula or “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula.” The official date for the founding of Los Angeles is September 4, 1781.
In May 1846, the Mexican-American War started. Commodore Robert F. Stockton, accompanied by John C. Frémont, seized the town and Governor Andres Pico signed Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847. On February 2, 1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed and ended the war. California became one of the United States territory.
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