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Everything LA! - About 8 hrs
(car $120 with insurance) ($30 gas) total price $250-300 profit $100-150 |
9:00 - pick up
9:30 - Hollywood Sign 10:30 - Hollywood - Walk of Fame, Chinese Theatre, Kodak Theatre 12:00 - Mulholland views and homes 12:45 - Beverly Hills Homes and drop off on Rodeo Drive 2:30 - Drive to Malibu 3:30 - Malibu Beach Time 4:30 - Head to Santa Monica Pier for Sunset 5:30 - After Sunset go to Third Street Promenade |
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Fast Facts
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Size of SoCal: about 42,000 sq. miles
SoCal Population: about 22 million Average rush hour speed on freeways: 17 mph Number of annual passengers passing through LAX: 61 million (world's fifth busiest) Percentage of North American adult film made in SoCal: 85% |
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Gay Culture and History - about 8 hrs
(car $120 with insurance) total price $300-$350 profit $180-230 |
- add a trip through Silverlake to the Hollywood Sign leg
- end back in West Hollywood for dinner and optional pub crawl later |
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Day Two, Extras, Add-ons!
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-La Brea Tar Pits, Grove, Berlin Wall, LACMA
-West Hollywood - Bars, Restaurants and HotSpots -Downtown - Olvera Street, Grand Central Market, Disney Concert Hall, and more -SilverLake, Griffith Park, The Observatory -Getty Center Highlights -LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) highlights -Hiking the canyons (Runyon, Topanga, Griffith Park) |
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Day Trips
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- Santa Barbara
- Palm Springs - Joshua Tree - Malibu Beaches - Laguna - Death Valley |
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History of LA: Prehistoric Times
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Long before humans arrived in North America, mammoths, sloths, dire wolves, saber-toothed cats and other Ice Age animals prowled this area.
Many of their fossils continue to be excavated at the La Brea Tar Pits where they were trapped between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago. Around 13,000 BCE the first humans started crossing the Bering Strait into North America, taking about 2,000 years to reach Southern California. |
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Native Californians
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There were about 150,000 to 300,000 native Californians altogether, belonging to 20 different language groups with 100 dialects between them.
They migrated with the seasons and mostly ate acorn meal, rabbit, deer, fish and shellfish. Conflict was almost non-existent. There was no warrior class nor tradition of warfare. The first were probably the Chumash near Santa Barbara. The Gabrielinos (or Tongva) later came from the Mojave desert and displaced a Chumash related tribe in the LA Basin. |
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Where did the name "California" come from?
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A 16th century Spanish novel became popular among adventurers, including Cortes. They thought that the land to the northwest of Mexico was populated by an Amazon people with a Queen named Calafia. They supposedly flew on griffins and had weapons made of gold.
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European Discovery
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In 1542, the first Europeans to visit the Los Angeles region were Captain Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and his crew. They were sailing up the coast looking for a new passage to Asia on behalf of the Spanish Empire. In 1602, Captain Sebastián Vizcaíno dropped anchor at Santa Catalina Island and near San Pedro. It would be another 166 years before another European would visit the region
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The Missions
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The first European land expedition set forth from Mexico to set up missions in 1769. It was headed by Gaspar de Portola and Franciscan priest Junipero Sera.
The mission in San Diego was the first of 21 missions set up, constructed by indian slave labor. More Indians died of new disease than were converted. |
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El Pueblo
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in 1781, Mexican governor Felipe de Neve set off from Mission San Gabriel with a tiny band of settlers to establish the future city of Los Angeles 9 miles west.
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Pobladores
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The Los Angeles Pobladores ("townspeople") is the name given to the 44 original settlers, 22 adults and 22 children, who founded the town.
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The early Pueblo
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At the end of the first year, only 8 of the original founders were still in the pueblo. Three had been forced out "for being useless to themselves and the town." But the town grew as soldiers and other settlers came into town and stayed. In 1784, a chapel was built on the Plaza. The pobladores were given title to their land two years later. By 1800, there were 29 buildings that surrounded the Plaza, flat-roofed, one-story adobe buildings with thatched roofs made of tule
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1821 - Mexican Independence
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After Mexico became independent from Spain, Spanish missionaries were kicked out and the missions were secularized and offered for sale. This gave birth to the Rancho system of land grants.
Rancheros prospered, using livestock to supply hide and tallow for trade. Americans gradually began showing interest in the area and started to filter in. |
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1848 - becomes part of the U.S. with the Hidalgo Treaty
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When the U.S. annexed Texas in 1845, war broke out between Mexico and the U.S. After conquering Mexico city, the U.S. forced the Mexicans to sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ceding one third of Mexico's entire territory to the U.S., including California, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona.
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1850 - Statehood
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California became the 31st state, entering as a free (non-slave) state. The first state constitution is written in Spanish and English. Los Angeles is incorporated in the same year.
After the land act of 1851, most rancheros lost their land. This area now became a real wild west. |
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1870s (xtra)
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In the mid 1870s the railroad was brought in. Also, orange trees were introduced to the region, sending the local economy through the roof.
In 1892, oil is discovered in downtown LA. |
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1907 (xtra)
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Followed by a real estate boom and advertising campaign to get people to move west in the 1880s, port of Los Angeles is opened at San Pedro, becoming the busiest harbor on the west coast.
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LA's swelling population
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A series of seminal events caused LA’s population to swell to two million by 1930: the collapse of the Northern California Gold Rush in the 1850s, the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1870s, the birth of the citrus industry in the late 1800s, the discovery of oil in 1892, the launch of the port of LA in 1907, the birth of the movie industry in 1908 and the opening of the LA Aqueduct in 1913.
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Universal Studio
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German born Carl Laemmle builds Universal Studios in 1915, next Goldwyn and DeMille build Paramount, and the Warner brothers arrive a few years later.
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Movie industry
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With perpetually sunny weather, most outdoor locations could be easily shot. Also, the proximity of the Mexican border enabled filmmakers to rush their equipment to safety when challenged by patent holders, such as Thomas Edison.
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Military Economy
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Along with the motion picture industry, aviation became a major business in the area starting with World War I.
The Lockheed brothers and Donald Douglas set up aircraft manufacturing plants in LA. This industry continued to contribute significantly to the economy in the following decades, but declined somewhat starting in the 1990s. |
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Social Change
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The 1950s created the quintessential middle class suburbs in Orange County, just south of LA, while in the 1960s, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and other luminaries called Hollywood and Venice Beach their home and stomping grounds.
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The Watts Riots - 1965
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Racial tension caused by economic and social inequality caused riots to break out in South Central Los Angeles in 1965. 34 People were killed and about $200 million dollars worth of property was damaged.
In reaction to the Rodney King verdict in 1992, a similar scene played out again in South Central, this times causing 54 deaths, 2000 injuries and $1 billion in property damage. |
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Kennedy Assassination - 1968
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Robert Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel near downtown LA.
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Summer Olympics - 1984
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LA hosts the olympics for the second time (first was 1932). Russia boycotted the games and the U.S. took home 83 gold medals.
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Earthquake- 1994
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A 6.7 on the Richter Scale, the earthquake in Northridge, part of LA's San Fernando Valley, killed 72, injured almost 12,000, and caused 12.5 billion in damage, making it among the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
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2005 - New Mayor
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In 2005, Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa, born in East L.A., is elected mayor of LA, the first Latino mayor since 1872.
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Hollywood Sign - 1923
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Erected in 1923, the sign originally said "Hollywoodland" and was put up to promote real estate development in the area. The "land" was dropped in 1949 and in 1973 it became a historic monument.
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First Academy Awards - 1929
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The first Academy Awards took place in the Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard.
About 250 people paid $10 each to be a part of the crowd. |
