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In the next millennium, the Americans, Mexicans, and Spanish successfully ruled Los Angeles. In 1821, when Mexico achieved its freedom, the Spanish rule ended, and the town came under its authority.

By the 1840's Los Angeles California became the greatest town due to its growing business with the US and marine

More information - businesses for example seal hunting and whaling. During the Mexican-American War in 1846, LA and the remainder of Ca became U.S. territory, and California was considered as the thirty-first state to america in 1850. The significant improvement of Los Angeles took place when the city was selected as the railway terminus for socal. In 1876, the Railway linkage with San Francisco was finished and there was a growth in the populace as thousands moved to town due to its available property, temperate climate, economical transcontinental fares and pristine landscapes. The actual estate rapidly marched up the cost of property, but also decreased by 1887, crashing the expectations of financers. However, LA continued to blossom when its market was motivated by the discovery of oil in 1892 as well as agricultural developments.

In the early twentieth millennium, the film industry came to La and the first cinema was opened in 1902 and Hollywood's first film facilities in 1911. In 1913, Cecil B. DeMille directed the first featurelength film. In 1923, the world-famous "Hollywood" sign was raised and in 1929, the School Awards were inaugurated. Los Angeles grew its reputation as "Tinseltown" and offered the newcomers a chance to pursue their goals by heading west. Throughout the 1930s, the movie industry continued to splurge, relieving those experiencing depression, which also found new arrivals to the city, escaping the dust containers of the Area and planning to rebuild their lives. The desert bound LA was guaranteed with continued water supply from significant infrastructure projects, in some cases generating harsh and enduring disputes over the rights to water channeled to the area further from north.

The Arroyo Seco Parkway laid the basis for the spreading mass of car culture as well as the freeways, which were to turn into a permanent part of the city's image and way of life. Throughout World War II (1939-45), the growing influence of the auto manufacturing plants, helped defense-related as well as the create the suburban development that was supposed to change the physical landscape of LA. In 1950's development in the increase of television was regarded as a threat to the film industry but later turned out to be an economic advantage as the city became the hq of this popular development as well as the thriving recording business, creating its standing as the entertainment capital of the world.

By the 1960s, the golden image of Los Angeles started to unravel as unchecked urban spread led to social and environment problems. The pollution and smog from the autos and businesses were considered as serious dangers to the standard of life. In September 1965, the city violence broke out in the black Watts neighborhood. As the decade was close to its finish, the killing of senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy (1925 1968) at the Ambassador Hotel allied Los Angeles with more violence.

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