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Apr 8, 2015 · The map stops in 1928 since the booster-book containing it was published just before Black Tuesday in October of 1929. But even those dark days could not slow the growth of Los Angeles, who ...
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Aug 26, 2022 · The 1920 census recorded that Los Angeles had passed San Francisco in population, becoming the 10th largest city in the nation. LA was, in fact, the fastest growing major city in the country during the early 20th century. Figure 8.1 8.1 on the next page presents population patterns among the largest cities in California between 1890 and 1940.
Jul 30, 2010 · At first, the 1929 stock market crash did not have much impact on the average Angeleno. But quickly, unemployment rose. By January 1930, a Los Angeles City Council resolution noted that “the unemployment situation is becoming more and more acute each day” (Leader, 1991, p. 4). The situation grew severe in the months that followed.
Nov 27, 2023 · A hundred years ago, a budding city was experiencing a time of turbulent growth. The decade of the 1920s transformed Los Angeles. What had been a winter resort for the wealthy and a fresh-air ...
A new collection of photos available in the Digital Collections of the California Historical Society offers an amazing look at Los Angeles and Angelenos during the days of the Great Depression.
Jan 10, 2011 · The authors of California of the South (Walter Lindley and Joseph. P. Widney) were Anglo residents of early Los Angeles writing for readers in the East. They assumed that Angeleño was the common name for Los Angeles residents. Not Angelino or Angeleno. The OED notes that the ending -eño continues to be the regular formation of the word ...
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Mar 3, 2021 · For many decades, Los Angeles had been known as a Black migrant "magnet." Folks came for the promise and the sunshine. The Black population in L.A. has dropped 30% since 1990, according to census ...
