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• Agoura HillsVoters approved cityhood by a 68 percent majority in 1982, making Agoura Hills the 83rd city in Los Angeles County.
• AlhambraThe Garfield Theatre stood at Valley Boulevard and Garfield Avenue from 1925 to 2001, beginning as a vaudeville house and ending its run showing Chinese-language films.
• ArcadiaDuring World War I the U.S. Army ran the Ross Field Balloon School in Arcadia, on the ground now occupied by Santa Anita Park.
• Beverly GroveIn 2008 the city amended its zoning map for the area then described as unofficially known as Beverly Grove, bounded on the north by Colgate Avenue and on the east by Fairfax Avenue.
• BeverlywoodBeverlywood households averaged 2.5 people, right at the norm for Los Angeles, and neighborhood incomes ran high for the city.
• BradburyBradbury incorporated in 1957 after fending off years of annexation attempts by neighboring Monrovia.
• BurbankThe Providencia Land, Water and Development Company began selling farm lots in the new town of Burbank on May 1, 1887.
• Canoga ParkCanoga Park was first named Owensmouth as a sales pitch, billing the town as the new mouth of the Owens River once the aqueduct was finished.
• CarthayCarthay's household income in 2008 ranked high for Los Angeles, and the share of its households in the county's top income bracket was high as well.
• Century CityIn 1956 Fox president Spyros Skouras and attorney Edmond Herrscher decided to turn the studio backlot into real estate, the plan that became Century City.
• ChatsworthFrom 1861 to 1875 the Santa Susana Stage Road was the main route between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and its steep drop into Chatsworth was called the Devil's Slide.
• Cheviot HillsAlmost all of Cheviot Hills lies on the old Spanish land grant of Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes, which stayed largely undeveloped until the 1920s.
• Culver CityHarry Culver's first advertisements for his new town promised that all roads lead to Culver City, which incorporated on September 20, 1917.
• Del ReyMexico and the Philippines were the most common birthplaces for Del Rey residents born abroad, who made up close to two in five of its people.
• Echo ParkResident opposition stopped the Glendale Freeway about 1.5 miles short of its planned junction with the Hollywood Freeway through Echo Park and Silver Lake.
• El SegundoOn the evening of October 2, 2025, an explosion and fire broke out at El Segundo's Chevron refinery, which runs about 276,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
• EncinoThe Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area beside Encino holds golf courses and a lake ringed by about 2,000 Pink Cloud cherry trees that bloom each spring.
• FairfaxThe Fairfax District had four synagogues in 1935 and twelve by 1945, as more Jewish families settled there.
• GlendaleJulio Verdugo mortgaged the family ranch in 1861 to build a larger house, and after the loan went unpaid a court divided Rancho San Rafael among claimants in 1871.
• Granada HillsO'Melveny Park in Granada Hills covers 672 acres, the second-largest park in the City of Los Angeles, with most of it left undeveloped.
• Hermosa BeachHermosa's Pier Avenue was once Santa Fe Avenue, the street that ran seven blocks inland from the beach to the Santa Fe Railway tracks.
• Hidden HillsOf the 593 households Hidden Hills counted in 2020, about two-thirds were married couples and a little over a third had children at home.
• HollywoodWhen Hollywood joined Los Angeles, Prospect Avenue became Hollywood Boulevard and 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont, was renumbered 6400 Hollywood Boulevard.
• Hollywood / Central LAAt the 2000 census Mid-Wilshire was the most ethnically diverse neighborhood of Central Los Angeles, while Pico-Union was the least.
• Hollywood HillsThe Hollywood Hills neighborhood runs north to the city line at Burbank and Universal City and ends on the east at a fire road through Griffith Park.
• Hollywood Hills WestHouseholds in Hollywood Hills West are small, averaging 1.9 people, and their 2008 income ranked high for both the city and the county.
• KoreatownBy the 1930s about 650 Koreans lived in Los Angeles, running churches, restaurants and businesses centered on fruit and vegetable distribution.
• La Cañada FlintridgeJacob Lanterman and Adolphus Williams bought Rancho La Cañada in 1875, and a shortage of water kept its development slow for decades.
• Lake BalboaWoodley Park, in the Sepulveda Basin at Lake Balboa, has an archery range, cricket fields and a wildlife preserve.
• Larchmont VillageThe Larchmont Chronicle, the neighborhood's print newspaper, was founded by Jane Gilman and Dawne Goodwin in 1963.
• Laurel CanyonAfter California became a state in 1850, Americans drawn by water rights settled Laurel Canyon, where Spanish ranchers had once grazed sheep.
• Los FelizAs late as 1900 Los Feliz held only 23 properties, most of the old rancho having passed to Griffith J. Griffith, who gave over half of it to the city as Griffith Park.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsThe Santa Monica Mountains hold more than 1,000 significant archaeological sites, most of them left by the Tongva and Chumash peoples.
• Mar VistaThe Mar Vista Oval District began around 1912 as the Palm Place development, laid out north of Washington Boulevard and south of the Venice Short Line.
• Marina del ReyLos Angeles County developed the marina by selling 60-year leaseholds, and Abraham M. Lurie, the largest leaseholder, built hotels, two apartment complexes and a thousand boat slips.
• Mid-WilshireLittle Ethiopia, the block of Fairfax Avenue between Olympic Boulevard and Whitworth Drive in Mid-Wilshire, is lined with Ethiopian restaurants.
• Miracle MileAt the east end of the original Miracle Mile stood the E. Clem Wilson Building, then the tallest commercial building in Los Angeles, crowned with a dirigible mast.
• MonroviaMonrovia's first townsite lots went on sale on May 17, 1886, in a 120-acre town centered on Myrtle Avenue.
• Mount OlympusGround was broken for Mount Olympus in June 1963, and its developers celebrated with a cocktail reception at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
• Nichols CanyonA 1929 plan called for widening the Nichols Canyon road to 46 feet as a northward extension of Genesee, a gateway between the Valley and West Hollywood.
• North HollywoodJ. B. Lankershim's land company set out a townsite in 1887 that residents named Toluca, along the old road from the Cahuenga Pass.
• NorthridgeSan Fernando Valley State College, today's Cal State Northridge, opened in 1956 as Northridge's farm lots were turning into housing tracts.
• PalmsIn 1882 several Midwestern families left Le Mars, Iowa, in a reconditioned freight car to settle the Ballona valley land that became Palms.
• Pico-RobertsonAmong Pico-Robertson residents born abroad, Iran was by far the most common birthplace, with Israel a distant second.
• Playa del ReyBuilding in Playa del Rey surged in 1928 with the Del Rey Hills tract east of Pershing Drive, the same year Loyola moved to neighboring Westchester.
• Playa VistaBefore Hughes Aircraft arrived, much of the land under Playa Vista was wetland tied to the salt marsh that became Marina del Rey.
• Porter RanchThe Renaissance Summit and other Porter Ranch home projects finished in the 1990s and 2000s were caught up in Los Angeles politics for years before building began.
• Rancho Palos VerdesBy May 2025 SoCalGas had begun restoring gas service to most homes in the Rancho Palos Verdes landslide area, after monitoring showed no measurable ground movement.
• Rancho ParkBill Heyler, a real estate broker who had opened an office on Pico near Manning in 1927, was given the honor of naming Rancho Park.
• Redondo BeachIn 2023 Redondo Beach turned down an application to replace its aging waterfront power plant with a complex of 2,700 homes, calling the application incomplete.
• ResedaBy the late 1930s Reseda ranked among the nation's largest lettuce producers, and Southern Pacific trains ran up the middle of Sherman Way to collect it.
• Rolling HillsRolling Hills counted 702 housing units in 2020, and 610 of its 639 occupied homes were lived in by their owners.
• Rolling Hills EstatesOf the 3,030 households Rolling Hills Estates counted in 2020, 68 percent were married couples and about a third had children at home.
• San Fernando ValleyIn 1909 a syndicate called the Suburban Homes Company bought 48,000 acres of the southern San Fernando Valley, farmland that had grown dry wheat since the 1870s.
• San GabrielMission San Gabriel Arcángel, the fourth of California's twenty-one missions, is known as the Pride of the California Missions.
• San Gabriel ValleyThe Juan Matias Sanchez Adobe, built in 1844, still stands at the center of the old Rancho La Merced in what is now Montebello.
• SawtelleBy 1906 the soldiers' home at Sawtelle was a stop on the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad's Balloon Route, a sightseeing trip by rented streetcar.
• Sherman OaksAfter the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Sherman Oaks homeowners won a lawsuit that kept the Community Redevelopment Agency from managing the rebuilding.
• Sierra MadreNathaniel Carter bought the original 1,103 acres of Sierra Madre in 1881, most of it from Lucky Baldwin.
• Silver LakeThe Fletcher Drive Viaduct, built of timber in 1904 for the Pacific Electric's Glendale Line at Silver Lake's northeast edge, was rebuilt in steel in 1928.
• South BayThe South Bay has two public airports of its own, Zamperini Field in Torrance and Hawthorne Municipal Airport, with LAX just past El Segundo's northern edge.
• South PasadenaJust over 500 people lived in South Pasadena when it incorporated on March 2, 1888, after residents of southern Pasadena voted for control of their own affairs.
• Sunset StripThe Sunset Strip covers 1.7 miles of Sunset Boulevard, from Marmont Lane at the Los Angeles line to Phyllis Street at the Beverly Hills line.
• TarzanaTarzana's shares of residents aged 50 and older ranked among the highest in the county, and about 9 percent of its people were military veterans.
• Temple CityWalter Temple named several Temple City streets for friends and family, among them Workman, Kauffman, Rowland and Agnes.
• Toluca LakeCharles Forman, who owned much of the land that became Toluca Lake, founded the Kern River Company, which carried electricity from generators on the Kern River to Los Angeles.
• TopangaTopanga had 8,560 residents at the 2020 census, spread at about 450 people per square mile.
• TorranceGramercy was the first residential avenue laid out in Torrance and Andreo the second, and many houses on both reached their centennial in 2012.
• Valley GlenClose to half of Valley Glen's residents were born abroad, most often in Mexico or Armenia.
• Valley VillageThe post office on Magnolia Boulevard stamped mail with a Valley Village postmark while the area was still officially part of North Hollywood.
• Van NuysVan Nuys was founded in 1911 and named for Isaac Newton Van Nuys, a rancher of Dutch ancestry who was one of its developers.
• VeniceOil was struck on the Venice Peninsula in 1929, and within two years 450 wells covered the area now called the Marina Peninsula.
• West HillsIn 1980 the area that later became West Hills had 32,370 residents, and 72 percent of them owned or were buying their homes.
• West HollywoodWest Hollywood grew from Sherman, a town laid out by Moses Sherman and his Los Angeles Pacific Railroad partners, and it has never been part of Hollywood or the City of Los Angeles.
• WestchesterThe arrival of technology companies such as Hulu, Google and Snap in neighboring Playa Vista has been a major force behind rising home values in Westchester.
• Westlake VillageWestlake Village sits about 9 miles inland from the Pacific, inside a wildlife corridor that links the Santa Monica Mountains with other open habitat, and mountain lions have been seen in its neighborhoods.
• WestsideBel Air, Holmby Hills and Beverly Hills, three Westside neighbors, are known together as the Platinum Triangle of Los Angeles.
• WestwoodThe part of Holmby Hills lying south of Sunset Boulevard and west of the Los Angeles Country Club falls within Westwood's boundaries.
• Windsor SquareWindsor Square was the first area of the city with its power lines run below ground, an unusual step for 1911.
• Woodland HillsWoodland Hills is home to the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a retirement and care campus reserved for people from the film and television industry.