• The 1920s were prosperous years for Los Angeles, California, United States, when the name "Hollywood" became synonymous with the U.S. film industry and...
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    The Wilshire Grand Center is the tallest building in Los Angeles, California, measuring 1,100 feet (335.3 m) in height. The Wilshire Grand became the...
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    quietly in Los Angeles County. DeSimone officially stepped down from the top position in the 1920s, but was still a power within the Los Angeles underworld...
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    South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying...
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    (/ləˈmɜːrt/; lə-MURT) is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. Developed in the 1920s as a mainly residential community...
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    area of Los Angeles, California, abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains. The neighborhood is named after the Feliz family...
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    street in the City of Los Angeles, California. The street is an east-west thoroughfare that runs through Downtown Los Angeles parallel to the Hollywood...
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  • The 1990 United States census and 2000 United States census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles. Estimates for the...
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    that is part of the Hollywood area of the central region of Los Angeles, California. Among the sites located within it are the Los Angeles City College,...
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    half-square-mile neighborhood in the central region of the City of Los Angeles, California. It has three schools and one small park. It has been the site of early and...
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    The Fairfax District is a neighborhood in the Central region of Los Angeles, California. Historically the Fairfax District has been a center of the Jewish...
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    Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending...
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    Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of the city of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a 5.84 sq mi...
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    district in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S...
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    events. The metropolitan area has twelve major league professional teams: the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Rams, the Los Angeles...
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  • the road is 45%; the more demanding surface course must be 35% or less. The test was developed by the city engineers of Los Angeles in the 1920s. The...
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    neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)...
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    Filipinotown (alternately known as HiFi) is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods (Chinatown...
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    the Westlake District, is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, United States. It was developed in the 1920s....
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  • The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the...
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    Hancock Park is a neighborhood in the Wilshire area of Los Angeles, California. Developed in the 1920s, the neighborhood features architecturally distinctive...
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    neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as...
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    entertainment indoor-outdoor stadium in Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. SoFi occupies the former site of the Hollywood Park Racetrack, 0.15...
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    became the cultural and business hub of the African-American community in Los Angeles from the 1920s to the 1950s. For more than 30 years, the Lincoln...
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    The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (also known as the Los Angeles Coliseum or L.A. Coliseum) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood...
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    neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. It is home to one Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. Franklin Hills is a residential neighborhood, set in the hills...
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    Miracle Mile is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California. It contains a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard known as Museum Row. It also contains...
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    The late-Victorian-era Downtown of Los Angeles in 1880 was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area, and over the next two decades,...
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    in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California, United States, originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel...
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  • Crime in Los Angeles has varied throughout time, reaching peaks between the 1970s and 1990s. In 2012, the Los Angeles Police Department reported that...
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