1848: California cedes to the United States
1890: Official flag designed
1911: First Hollywood production company
1928: Walt Disney finds first lasting success
1955: Walt Disney moves to Bel Air
2003: Walt Disney concert hall becomes a new architectuarl emblem
Los Angeles
Famous places
Townships
Venice
Griffin Park and Observatory
Santa Monica Pier
- Venice was founded in 1905
- Venice has canals that modeled after Venice in Italy
The Los Angeles Farmer's Market
The J Paul Getty Museum complex
Angels Flight
the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Downtown Los Angeles
Hollywood
Facts & Figures
- Downtown LA was founded in 1781
- It is the central business district of LA
- In Downtown LA is the political center of LA located
Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits
Long Beach, Queen Mary
Venice Beach
Bel Air
- population: 3,8 million
- Visitors per year: 40,3 million
- Los Angeles is the second biggest city in the USA after New York
- Bel Air was founded in 1923
- It is the noble neighbourhood of LA
- A lot of famous actours live in Bel Air
- Television series like "The prince of Bel Air" and "Hart to Hart" were produced in Bel Air
Hollywood
Facts & Figures
- The population of Hollywood is 210.824
- The population per sq km is 3231
- It was founded in 1903
History
- H. J. Whitley founded Hollywood
- In 1911, the first film cooperation came to Hollywood (The Nestor company)
- The first film companies were located in New york, but the film industry didn't want to subordinate the Motion Picture company
- so they moved to Hollywood
The biggest film studios in Hollywood
Universal-, MGM-, Twentieth Century Fox-, Paramount-, Warner Bros., Walt Disney-, Dreamworks-, Columbia Picture- and Bavaria studios
Sport
Population of Los Angeles
- Los Angeles area is home to some of the most prominent and professional sport teams in United States.
- Question:
- Can you name any of the sport teams?
- hosted the summer Olympic Games twice (first time in 1932, again in 1984)
- Los Angeles Galaxy is the soccer team of LA
LA
- the team colors are blue, gold and white
- the Mascot called: Cozmo -->
- he is a frog-like an alien
- first match on 22th march 2014
- against the Orange Country Blues
- home stadium is Track & Field Stadium
Languages
- English together with Spanish are the most spoken languages in Los Angeles
- 224 languages are spoken in Los Angeles for example: Spanish, Korean, Filipino
History
Sights
Walk of fame
- stars with names of the most famous people of the world
- goes along the Hollywood boulevard and the Vine-Street
Hollywood sign
- each letter are 15 meters high
and 137 meters long
- the Hollywood sign is in the Hollywood
Hills, which is over the borough