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Los Angeles is one of the world's centers of culture, technology, media, business, and international trade. Los Angeles was founded in 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve as 'The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola'. It became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its independence from Spain.

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LOS ANGELES: Chinatown, Dodger Stadium, Downtown Los Angeles, Getty Center, Getty Villa, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Griffith Observatory, Hollywood, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Sign, Kodak Theatre, Koreatown, MacArthur Park, Memorial Coliseum, Theme Building, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Watts Towers,

CHINATOWN Chinatown, in Downtown Los Angeles, was originally located less than a mile from its current location where Union Station is located. The first Chinatown, centered around Alameda and Macy Streets, was established around 1880. Residents were evicted to make room for Union Station, causing the formation of the New Chinatown ...

DODGER STADIUM Located adjacent to Downtown Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium has been the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers team since 1962. Dodger Stadium was constructed from 1959 to 1962 at a cost of $23 million. Dodger Stadium is currently the third oldest ballpark in MLB and is the largest ballpark by seating capacity ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The area features many of the city's major arts institutions and sports facilities, sightseeing opportunities, a variety of skyscrapers and large multinational corporations, and an array of public art and unique shopping opportunities ...

GETTY CENTER The Getty Center is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The museum's permanent collection includes pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs. Among the works on display is the painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh ...

GETTY VILLA The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria. Oil tycoon J. Paul Getty originally opened a gallery adjacent to his home in Pacific Palisades ...

GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE Grauman's Chinese Theatre is an iconic movie theatre located at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. The Chinese Theatre was commissioned following the success of the nearby Grauman's Egyptian Theatre which opened in 1922. The theatre opened May 18, 1927 with the premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings ...

GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY Griffith Observatory sits on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.'s Griffith Park, it commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. The observatory is a popular tourist attraction with an extensive array of space- and science-related displays ...

DISCOVER HOLLYWOOD Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used to describe Ameriacn cinema. Many historic Hollywood theaters are used as venues to premiere major theatrical releases and host the Academy Awards ...

HOLLYWOOD BOWL The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles that is used primarily for music performances. The Hollywood Bowl is known for its band shell, a distinctive set of concentric arches that graced the site from 1929 through 2003, before being replaced with a somewhat larger one beginning in the 2004 season ...

HOLLYWOOD SIGN The Hollywood Sign is a famous landmark in the Hollywood Hills area of Mount Lee, Santa Monica Mountains, in Los Angeles, California, spelling out the name of the area in 45-foot-tall and 350-foot-long white letters. It was created as an advertisement in 1923, but garnered increasing recognition after the sign was left up ...

KODAK THEATRE The Kodak Theatre is a live theatre in the Hollywood and Highland retail, dining, and entertainment complex on Hollywood Boulevard. Since its opening in 2001, the theatre has been the home of the annual Academy Awards Ceremonies (The Oscars), and is the first permanent home for the awards. Since 2002, the theater was also the home for American Idol ...

KOREATOWN Koreatown is a neighborhood in the Mid-Wilshire district of the city of Los Angeles. Home to a population of over 120,000 and covering just under 3-square-mile, it has one of the highest population density of all neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The neighborhood is in the midst of a construction boom that has helped fuel an influx of new residents ...

MACARTHUR PARK MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park) is a park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated a Historic Cultural Monument . The park is divided in two by Wilshire Boulevard. The southern portion primarily consists of a lake, while the northern half includes an amphitheatre, bandshell, soccer fields ...

MEMORIAL COLISEUM The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at Exposition Park that is home to the University of Southern California Trojans football team. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena adjacent to the campus of the University of Southern California ...

THEME BUILDING The Theme Building is a landmark structure at the Los Angeles International Airport within the Westchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles. It opened in 1961, and is an example of the Mid-Century modern influenced design school known as Googie or Populuxe. The distinctive white building resembles a flying saucer that has landed on its four legs ...

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale ...

WATTS TOWERS The Watts Towers or Towers of Simon Rodia in the Watts district of Los Angeles, California, is a collection of 17 interconnected structures, two of which reach heights of over 99 feet (30 m). The Towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato (Sam or Simon) Rodia in his spare time over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954 ...

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