Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States after New York City, the most populous city in the state of California, and the county seat of Los Angeles County. Situated in Southern California, Los Angeles is known for its mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling metropolis, and as a major center of the American entertainment industry. Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10,000 feet (3,000 m).
Historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was officially founded on September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood. The city experienced rapid growth with the discovery of oil.[1]
Important Locations[]
- The Los Angeles Banner headquarter
Assorted[]
- Back Alley Club:
- Chaplin Air Field: During the 1930s, this was the venue for Bigelow's Air Circus.
- Earffel Tower:
- The Forum: This was a concert-venue in Hollywood.
- Highland Apartments: An apartment complex nearby the Back Alley Club.
- Hollywood: Hollywood is a neighbourhood in Los Angeles which includes Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard.
- Paradise Pier: Paradise Pier was a victorian boardwalk park, built along the coast in California. The park featured several attractions and was connected to Los Angeles via the Red Car Trolley of the Pacific Electric Railway.
- South Seas Club: The South Seas Club is a nightclub located in Hollywood. Its most memorable feature was its intricately designed, nautical-themed stage which had nightly entertainer performances.
- Toontown: Toontown is a city/neighbourhood outside of Los Angeles which is home to the various, "Toon" characters who act in animated projects. Toontown is largely made of cartoon matter and operates off of cartoon logic.
Buena Vista Street[]
Buena Vista Street is a street in Los Angeles, California. By the 1920s it had a Pacific Electric Railway service Red Car Trolley system connecting the street to Carthay Circle, Hollywood Boulevard, and Sunset Boulevard, namely going directly to the Hollywood Tower Hotel.[2]
- 1901 Lounge:
- Atwater's Ink & Paint: This was an art-store which had an art-school on its second-floor. The shop was owned by an elusive individual named Ronald Pound.
- Backlot Stage 17: An indoor Hollywood filming stage at Hollywood's backlot which also sold premiere merchandise.
- Buena Vista Bugle headquarters: This was the headquarters for local newspaper, The Buena Vista Bugle.
- Carthay Circle:
- Clarabelle's Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Parlor:
- Elias & Co.: This was a clothing-store run by a man named Elias Walther Parr.
- Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe: This was a café and bakery run by the, "Silver Lake Sisters", three popular singers from the vaudeville circuit and the Tip Top Club.
- Horace's Pawn Shop:
- Hyperion Bridge:
- Main Entry Plaza:
- Mortimer's Market: This was a business run by one, Mortimer McKenzie.
- Oswald's: Oswald's was a gas-station and tire shop run by a man named Oswald.
Echo Lake[]
Echo Lake is a small, oval-shaped lake surrounded by a neighbourhood which has architecture in-line with the Hollywood's Golden Age. This area was also used to hold various sound-stages.
- Dinosaur Gertie's Ice Cream of Extinction: Located on the lake itself, this ice-cream service was based out of a sculpture of, "Gertie" from the 1914 animated short-film, "Gertie the Dinosaur".
- Hollywood and Vine: Hollywood and Vine is a restaurant said to be, "Where the stars dine". Above the restaurant is the office of private-investigator, Eddie Valiant.
- Hyperion Theater: The Hyperion Theatre is a Hollywood Craze theatre which hosted live shows.
- Indiana Jones Adventure Outpost:
- Indiana Jones Sound-stage: This was a large, mostly outdoors sound-stage used to film Indiana Jones media, particularly involving stunt-actors. The outside of the stage may have had actual archaeological activity present.
- Min & Bill’s Dockside Diner: The Dockside Diner was based out of a steamboat docked on the lake called the S.S. Down the Hatch. It was seemingly run by dockside innkeepers Min Divot and Bill (fictional characters from the 1930 comedy film Min and Bill) who shipped cargo to and from various characters including Rick Blaine (Casablanca), Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane), George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life), Scarlett O'Hara (Gone with the Wind) and Max Bialystalk (The Producers).[3]
- Oasis Canteen: Located near the sound-stage for the Indiana Jones film, this canteen was themed in-line with the movies.
- Peevy's Polar Pipeline: This was a dining-service run by the engineer A. "Peevy" Peabody where he also assisted his friend Cliff Secord, who was secretly the flying vigilante, "The Rocketeer". Atop the building for this dining-service was a billboard used by the Maroon Cartoons animation studio.
- Star Wars sound-stage: This was a large soundstage, seemingly used to film Star Wars media as its outside depicted the forest moon of Endor with a faux AT-AT while its other side has a shop called, "Tatooine Traders" modelled after the sand planet of Tatooine.
Grand Avenue[]
This is an avenue of old buildings, revitalized by modern Los Angeles culture. Many of its features are located around the courtyard of, "Grand Park".
- Angelino Alterations:
- BaseLine Tap House: This Los Angeles building was formerly used by the, "Ma & Pa" style Figueroa Printing Company, affiliated with the Walt Disney Company. The building was later repurposed to become a bar.
- Grand Arts Theatre:
- Grand Lofts:
- Ice Cold Hydraulics: Located at 725 Grand Avenue and founded in 1989.
- Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano:
- Mercado Garcia Sisters: Established in 1935 and located at 724 Grand Avenue.
- PizzeRizzo: A pizzeria established in 1908.
- Spring Flower Market:
- Stage 1 Company Store:
- Parkside Antiques: An antique store specializing in Christmas items under the moniker, "It's A Wonderful Shop".
Hollywood Boulevard[]
Hollywood Boulevard is a kind of, "Main Street" for the Hollywood neighbourhood, intersecting with Sunset Boulevard.
- Adrian and Edith's Head to Toe Costume Shop:
- Avalon Hollywood:
- Celebrity 5 & 10:
- The Chinese Theatre: The Chinese Theatre (or Grauman's Chinese Theatre) is a large, historic and ornate movie palace located at the head of Hollywood Boulevard. The outside of the theatre has cement with handprints from various characters and celebrities. The inside of the theatre is known to have projectors connecting to the Toon populated regions of, "Toontown", namely Runnamuck Park. Historically the theatre was known for giving guided tours of various famous movies.
- Classic Car Memorabilia:
- The Darkroom:
- El Capitan Theatre: A playhouse-turned-movie theatre owned by the Walt Disney Company.
- Hollywood Brown Derby:
- Oscar's Super Service: Oscar's Super Service is a vintage gas-station on Hollywood Boulevard.
- Studio Prop Co.:
- Studio Prop Shop:
- The Trolley Car Cafe: Built in 1928 near the intersection with Sunset Boulevard, the Trolley Car Cafe is a large cafe, made from a base of the Pacific Electric Railway.[4]
Sunset Boulevard[]
- Carthay Circle: This was a movie-theatre and shopping-service located on Sunset Boulevard, nearby the Theatre of the Stars' entrance.
- G-Force Records Studio: G-Force Records is a record-label which was active during the golden age of Hollywood. In the 1990s they struck big with large name musical-artists suck as Aerosmith and a large assortment of state-of-the-art recording technology.[5]
- Hollywood Hills Amphitheater: The Hollywood Hills Amphitheatre was a massive external stage located adjacent to Sunset Hills and the Hollywood Tower Hotel. It held nightly spectacular shows and had a stage which included a small mountainside stage with a faux river surrounding it.[6]
- The Hollywood Tower Hotel: The Hollywood Tower Hotel was Hollywood's premiere hotel during the golden age of cinema. This was until the October 31 of 1939 when the hotel was struck by a bolt of paranormal lightning originating from the 5th Dimension. Five people died during the incident which demolished the hotel's elevator shafts and left it as a haunted locale, causing less business in that area of Sunset Boulevard.[7]
- Hyperion Theatre: The Hyperion Theatre is a theatre venue located at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard.
- Starring Rolls Cafe:
- Sunset Hills Estates: Sunset Hills Estates was a piece of property at the head of Sunset Boulevard which was founded in 1928.[8]
- Sunset Ranch Market:
- Theatre of the Stars: The Theatre of the Stars was an outdoors proscenium-arch theatre with a small thrust stage which held shows during the 1990s.[9]
Tower of Terror appearances[]
Trivia[]
- In the, "Citizens of Hollywood" attraction, the mayor of L.A. (referred to as the, "Mayor of Hollywood") is one Sonny Burbank. This attraction was set in the late 1940s. In real-life, this would have been the term of Republican mayor, Fletcher Bowron (1887-1968).
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/subterranean-l-a-the-urban-oil-fields/
- ↑ https://allears.net/disneyland/dlr-planning/buena-vista-street-disney-california-adventure/
- ↑ https://allears.net/2009/06/13/min-bills-dockside-diner-disneys-hollywood-studios/
- ↑ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2015/02/04/first-look-and-review-the-trolley-car-cafe-at-disneys-hollywood-studios/
- ↑ https://wdwthemeparks.com/attraction/rock-n-roller-coaster-starring-aerosmith/
- ↑ https://mickeyblog.com/2018/12/10/behind-curtain-fantasmic-hollywood-studios/
- ↑ https://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20190402/36801/3-bizarre-secrets-about-history-disney-s-hollywood-studios?page=2
- ↑ https://allears.net/2010/02/04/twilight-zone-tower-of-terror-part-one/
- ↑ https://allears.net/2020/08/04/a-new-show-has-debuted-at-the-theater-of-the-stars-in-disneys-hollywood-studios/