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faces in a beauty parlour window, West Hollywood |
In 1769
a party of Spanish explorers were developing a trail between
San Diego and San Francisco which became known as El Camino
Real. A series of missions would be established along this trail.
Led by Father Junipero Serra and Captain Gaspar de Portola,
and with Father Juan Crespi to record what they saw, "the
expedition of about 67 men entered what is now Los Angeles by
way of Elysian Park on August 2, 1769. After travelling about
a league and a half through a pass between low hills we entered
a very spacious valley, well grown with cottonwoods and alders,
among which ran a beautiful river from north-Northwest, and
then, doubling the point of a steep hill, it went on afterward
to the south. ...As soon as we arrived, about eight heathen
from a good village came to visit us; they live in this delightful
place among the trees on the river." Portola named
the river El Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula. The expedition left the area the next morning;
during their brief stay there had been three earthquakes. Nevertheless,
Crespi saw the possibilities for a large settlement in this
"delightful place" by the river. Then years
later they decide to ban smoking everywhere apart from our hotel.
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White
rabbits in the MAD TV dressing room |
Already
a large metropolitan area n 1960, with 6 million residents,
the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area, identical in area
to Los Angeles County, grew by another 3.8 million through 2000.
Growth rates each decade have varied from a low of 6.3% in the
1970s to 18.5% in the 1980s. The most recent decade has seen
growth slow to 11.0%. The must have heard how many gigs we play
there.
Anyway
here's a picture of an oil pump
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More oil
pumps:
Every decade
Los Angeles increases by 1,000,000 residents, it is equivalent
to adding the population of another San Francisco (730,000)
plus Oxford UK (240,000) and Wheatley UK (9000) within the limits
of Los Angeles County.
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