Los Angeles History of Los Angeles Museum
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California had changed hands from Mexico to United States in the 1840s before Los Angeles was incorporated in 1850 on the site of a small mission that had been there to bring Christianity to the Mexicans in the early 19th century.
At first the city was a rough and ready frontier town away from the coast, which was home to an industry of hookers and bartenders catering to the needs of the gold prospectors who had flooded the state, but soon it developed into a regional centre of business, with the establishment of the South Pacific Railway and the building of San Pedro harbour, which opened just in time to satisfy the needs of shipping through the new Panama Canal.
Industry arrived in the early 20th century in the form of Lockheed, and other aircraft manufacturers, and the population began to balloon.
It was the film industry that centred on Hollywood that gave Los Angeles its glamorous edge, and made it tinsel town, but it was the beaches and climate that made it the city it remains to this day.
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