Los
Angeles History - With the good and the bad
this city never quits and rebuilds and withstands
anything. Today LA continues to thrive. It is a popular
destination for travellers and tourists. The people
in the area work in many different fields and always
will continue to be as diverse as the Motion
Picture Industry. Without it what would the
rest of us do? Remember someone makes all those movies
that everyone likes to see for entertainment. In this
city, on this land, is where it all begins. It will
always be one of the fundamental parts of the United
States continuing to uphold it’s famous Motion
Picture Capitol of the World honor and rightly so.
September 4, 1781, The Town of the Queen
of the Angels, Los Angeles came into being.
Many people never realize that before Hollywood
ever came to be the hub of the motion picture industry,
Long Beach was the winner. That’s where all
the goings on were happening in Long Beach. A theatre
called Balboa Studios did the most business of any
independent studio in the entire world.
It wasn’t until after World War I that Hollywood
took over the honors.
On February 25, 1942, a false alarm started gunfire
(the cause has never been known) and launched the
Battle of Los Angeles and it was
the only serious military action during World War
II over a United States Metropolitan area.
In 1981 Los Angeles celebrated its
200th birthday.
5 million people stretching 4,150 miles, join Hands
Across America the human chain in 1986. The
people held hands all across the nation from LA to
New York City.
6.7 Richter Scale Northridge Earthquake,
1994 sparks $20 billion dollars worth of damage.
In 1998 El Nino Storms thrash against
the Malibu area leaving a disastrous amount of damage
to the entire area.
