Los Angeles

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This is an article about the big city Los Angeles. Have fun!

Los Angeles is the largest city of California and the second largest
city of the USA. It lays on the west coast of California at the Pacific
Ocean. Los Angeles can divide in 15 different areas like Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles, South Los Angeles or Wilshire. The population is 3.8 million and the city is 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 square kilometres) large and it's also know as L.A. or as the City of Angels.

When the Spanish governor Felipe de Neve founded L.A. in 1781
it was called "El Pueblo de Noestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles
del Rio de Porciuncula"(the village of our lady,the queen of angels
of the river of porziuncola).At this time their live only 44 people.
Los Angeles is a world center of business,international trade,
entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, technology e.t.c.
It has 25 partnertowns.For the Public transportation their are bus lines, the subway and the light rail line. The main airport of Los Angeles is the Los Angeles International Airport. It's the fifth busiest commercial airport of the world and the third busiest in the United States. 61 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo were transportet in 2006. Los Angeles has altogether 8 airports. To the important landmarks in Los Angeles belongs for example Chinatown, Little Tokyo, the Walt Disney Concert Hall... (altogether 19 landmarks).


Walt Disney Concert Hall

Hollywood, which means in German 'Stechpalmenwald', is a district of Los Angeles and a center of movie stars and movie studios. The name Hollywood was coined by H.J.Whitley, the father of Hollywood, in 1886. By 1900 the region had only a post office, a newspaper, a hotel, two markets and only 500 inhabitents. Since 1900 it belongs to Los Angeles. The first movie, which was filmed there was 'A Daring Hold-Up in Southern California'. The first studio in Hollywood was established by New Jersey-based Centaur Co. By 1920 Hollywood had become world famous as the center of the United States film industry. Today the biggest film studios are the Universal studio and Warner Bros. Every year the Academy Awards were held in late March/early April since 2004. The Oscar is held in the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue since 2002. There are 54 film festivels every year, which translates into more than one every week.



Also famous is the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which was created in 1958 as a tribute to artists working in the entertainment industry. The first star on the Walk is Joanne Woodward. Her star was set in place on February 9,1960. Today there are over 2000 stars on the Walk.

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Kerstin and Nicole