Interesting facts about Los Angeles.
1- LosAngeles is the second largest city in the United States with a population of approximately 3.9 million people.
2- The city was founded on September 4, 1781 and originally named El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Ángeles meaning "The Town of the Queen of the Angels.
3- The Hollywood sign originally read "Hollywoodland" when erected in 1923. "Land" was removed in 1949.
4- Los Angeles homes the largest urban oil field in the US . Under the city's famous La Brea Tar Pits.
5- The city is known for car culture, opening America's first freeway in 1940.
6- Los Angeles is one of the world's most ethnically diverse cities with over 140 languages spoken.
7- The Lakers basketball team has won 17 NBA championships, tied with Boston Celtics, most in NBA history.
8- The city hosts America's largest port complex with two major ports: Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach.
9- The famous Santa Monica Pier, opened in 1909, is the West Coast's oldest operating amusement park.
50 most famous quotes about los Angeles city.
1- "Los Angeles is a place where people come to chase their dreams." - Kobe Bryant
2- "Los Angeles is a city built on reinvention." - Ryan Murphy
3- "Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe." - Emily Mortimer
4- "Los Angeles is like a giant amusement park." - David Hockney
5- "Los Angeles is a sprawling, messy city that's always changing." - James Frey
6- "Los Angeles is a place where everyone's just doing their own thing." - Mark Duplass
7- "Los Angeles is the epicenter of cool." - Zooey Deschanel
8- "Los Angeles is the embodiment of the American dream." - Tom Ford
9- "Los Angeles is a city of angels, but also a city of demons." - Paul Haggis
10- "Los Angeles is a place where anything is possible." - Antonio Villaraigosa
11- "Los Angeles is the city where the impossible becomes possible." - Ray Bradbury
12- "Los Angeles is a place of infinite possibility." - Herb Alpert
13- "Los Angeles is a city of excess, of huge ambition, of reinvention." - Maria Bello
14- "Los Angeles is a place where people come to escape reality." - Mindy Kaling
15- "Los Angeles is a city that's constantly evolving and changing." - Zoe Saldana
16- "Los Angeles is a city that's larger than life." - Tyra Banks
17- "Los Angeles is a place where everyone's just trying to make it." - James Franco
18- "Los Angeles is a place where you can reinvent yourself, where you can be whoever you want to be." - Kevin Smith
19- "Los Angeles is a city where anything can happen." - Robert Rodriguez
20- "Los Angeles is a place of limitless possibilities." - Henry Rollins
21- "Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel." - Fran Lebowitz
22- "I love Los Angeles. It's a great, sprawling, spread-out city." - Neil Patrick Harris
23- "Los Angeles is all about the light." - Alexander Calder
24- "The best thing about Los Angeles is that you can learn to drive by watching the police." - Tom Waits
25- "Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. The stars are plastic, the people are plastic, the sky is plastic." - Norman Mailer
26- "Los Angeles is a great place to live if you're a grapefruit." - Jim Davis
27- "In Los Angeles, everyone is a star." - Denzel Washington
28- "Los Angeles is a place where you can reach out and touch the future." - Lisa See
29- "Los Angeles is a city that has reinvented itself every 20 years." - Mike Davis
30- "Los Angeles is a beautifully wrapped lie." - James Ellroy
31- "Los Angeles is the only place where you can drive in the middle of the day and see nobody." - Simon Cowell
32- "Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city." - Dorothy Parker
33- "Los Angeles is a sunny place for shady people." - Alexander Woollcott
34- "Los Angeles is a city of dreams and nightmares, a city of hope and despair." - David Lynch
35- "Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls." - Ice-T
36- "Los Angeles is where you confront the objective conditions of your own life." - Joan Didion
37- "Los Angeles is the city where the famous walk." - Tim Crouch
38- "Los Angeles is the city of the future." - Harrison Ford
39- "Los Angeles is where America's dreams and nightmares are made." - Jonathan Kellerman
40- "Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only money." - David L. Ulin
41- "Los Angeles is a giant jukebox." - Scott Timberg
42-"Los Angeles is a city of perpetual anticipation, and always it keeps its promise." - John Fante
43- "Los Angeles is a great place to be from." - David Lee Roth
44- "Los Angeles is a paradox. The more you look, the less you see." - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
45- "Los Angeles is a place of eternal sunshine, but also of darkness and despair." - Eve Babitz
46- "Los Angeles is a city where people are always reinventing themselves." - Heidi Klum
47- "Los Angeles is a city of dreams, but it's also a city of broken dreams." - Anton Yelchin
48- "Los Angeles is a place of constant change and reinvention." - Beck
49- "Los Angeles is a city that inspires reinvention and risk-taking." - Ava DuVernay.
50- "Los Angeles is a place where you can be whoever you want to be." - Jennifer Aniston
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