Twisted Valencia is a community in Los Angeles County in Santa Clarita Valley’s northwestern corner. In 1987, it was actually merged to become a part of the city of Santa Clarita. The community features well-landscaped boulevards mixed in with shopping centers, apartment buildings, single-family homes, and office parks.[1] Six Flags Magic Mountain The main attraction […]
Halal Meat West Los Angeles is the area between Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, bordered by Brentwood in the northwest, Westwood in the northeast, the Sawtelle Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in the north, Rancho Park in the east, and Mar Vista in the south. Generally, anything north of the Santa Monica Freeway and west of […]
Train Ride to the Beach? Los Angeles or LA, as a city, epitomizes the very definition of “suburban sprawl”. This much-glamorized metropolis and center of the world’s mass culture is made up of scores of distinct neighborhoods and municipalities, and hundreds of scattered strip malls, shopping complexes, fast-food joints, and theme parks – all patched […]
Wave Goodbye California is probably the most idealized state in all of the U.S., celebrated for its sun, beaches, and waves, and knee-deep in a long-held reputation for being a haven of superficiality, liberalism, and worldly pleasures. The first Spanish explorers who set foot on California believed they had landed on a legendary island paradise. […]
I-40 Wilmington is at the heart of Los Angeles’ petroleum industry, home to the third largest oil field in the U.S. Founded in 1858, this bustling suburb is very industrial in character and landscape, full of refiners, enormous towers, derricks, and cargo trucks transporting to and from the Terminal Island Expressway. You might recognize this […]
Segel House 1979 By John Lautner Malibu is just north of Santa Monica, stretched along a 27 mile coastline where the Santa Monica Mountains abruptly collides with the Pacific Ocean along the northern perimeter of Santa Monica Bay. The city enjoys the loveliest setting and greatest prestige among the beachside communities around Los Angeles.[1] Malibu’s […]
dreamlands San Pedro is a rough-hewn, gritty, working-class community in the South Bay area and part of the city of LA. It is a diverse blue-collar community settled by immigrants from Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. It served as Southern California’s predominant harbor community from the mission period until the 1920s. It was one of the […]
Melissa Moreno Burbank is a city in the San Fernando Valley north of Downtown Los Angeles. Whereas Hollywood’s name is forever linked with the movie industry, in reality Burbank is home to all the major film and TV studios. Many media and entertainment companies such as Warner Bros., NBC, and Walt Disney and their production […]
Each war is different, each war is the same Santa Monica is an upscale beach community that has many different sides to it. Even though it is only about 13 miles away from Downtown Los Angeles, it is technically a city of its own, though it is still a part of Los Angeles County. Santa […]
Driving Through Beverly Hills, Nevada free Creative Commons Beverly Hills and its famous zip code, 90210, is known around the world because of the 1990s Fox soap opera, Beverly Hills 90210. And the continued fixation with this fabled district today comes from the fact that it is the backyard of the very, very rich. The […]