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• Agoura HillsAgoura began to grow in the late 1960s after the Ventura Freeway was built through it, splitting the community into northern and southern sections.
• AlhambraAlhambra's main business district, at Main Street and Garfield Avenue, has been a center of commerce since 1895.
• ArcadiaIn 1913 Lucky Baldwin's daughter Anita built Anoakia, a 50-room Italian Renaissance Revival mansion, on 19 acres of the ranch she inherited.
• Beverly GroveThe Beverly Center, opened in Beverly Grove in 1982, stands where a small amusement park called Beverly Park once operated.
• BeverlywoodEntrance monuments and signs mark Beverlywood's edges at Monte Mar Drive, Robertson Boulevard, Hillcrest Country Club, Anchor Avenue and Beverlywood Street.
• BradburyLewis L. Bradbury founded the town on the homestead of Rancho Azusa de Duarte in 1881.
• BurbankIn August 1900 Burbank opened the first telephone exchange in the San Fernando Valley.
• Canoga ParkRocketdyne moved to Canoga Park in 1955 and built its main manufacturing plant there.
• CarthayCarthay Center Elementary, a K–6 school on West Olympic Boulevard, is the only school inside Carthay's boundaries.
• Century CityIn 1961 20th Century Fox sold about 180 acres of its backlot to developer William Zeckendorf and Alcoa, and the land became Century City.
• ChatsworthThe Chatsworth Historical Society formed in 1963 to save the Pioneer Church from demolition and is based at the Homestead Acre, a city historic-cultural monument in Chatsworth Park South.
• Cheviot HillsFrom the 1920s until 1953 the Pacific Electric streetcar known as the Santa Monica Air Line ran through Cheviot Hills.
• Culver CityHughes Aircraft opened its Culver City plant in July 1941 and built the H-4 Hercules, the Spruce Goose, there.
• Del ReyThe 1902 streetcar and freight line that shaped Del Rey was turned into the Culver Boulevard Median Bike Path in the 1990s.
• Echo ParkThe Mack Sennett Studios complex on Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park dates to 1909 and includes one of the area's first permanent sound stages.
• El SegundoEl Segundo had 7,500 housing units at the 2020 census, about 95.7 percent of them occupied.
• EncinoFor more than a millennium Encino was home to a massive California live oak, the Encino Oak Tree, which may have given the neighborhood its name.
• FairfaxMost of Fairfax High School's original campus was demolished in 1966 because its Spanish Colonial Revival main building did not meet earthquake safety standards.
• GlendaleLeslie Coombs Brand joined Henry E. Huntington to bring Pacific Electric's Red Cars to Glendale, where the Glendale–Burbank Line ran from 1904 to 1955.
• Granada HillsWhite Oak Avenue in Granada Hills became a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1966 for the 101 deodar cedars that line it.
• Hermosa BeachHermosa Beach incorporated on January 14, 1907, the nineteenth city in Los Angeles County.
• Hidden HillsA. E. Hanson, who designed Hidden Hills, had earlier worked on Rolling Hills, Palos Verdes Estates and Harold Lloyd's Greenacres estate in Beverly Hills.
• HollywoodH. J. Whitley paid to bring electricity and electric lighting to early Hollywood, and he also built a bank and a road into the Cahuenga Pass.
• Hollywood / Central LAAt the 2000 census Central Los Angeles averaged about 14,458 residents per square mile, even with the uninhabited Griffith and Elysian parks counted in its area.
• Hollywood HillsThe Hollywood Hills straddle the Cahuenga Pass in the Santa Monica Mountains, with US 101 cutting through the neighborhood from southeast to northwest.
• Hollywood Hills WestWonderland Avenue Elementary is the only school inside Hollywood Hills West, a neighborhood that takes in Crescent Heights, Lookout Mountain and Sunset Plaza.
• KoreatownBy the late 1970s most businesses in the Olympic Boulevard and 8th Street areas of Koreatown were owned by Koreans.
• La Cañada FlintridgeLa Cañada Flintridge climbs from about 970 feet near Devil's Gate Dam to about 2,400 feet at its highest neighborhood along the mountain front.
• Lake BalboaLake Balboa Park, also called Anthony C. Beilenson Park, covers 80 acres of the Sepulveda Basin with a 27-acre lake at its center.
• Larchmont VillageJulius LaBonte, a developer from the Midwest, is credited with shaping Larchmont Village into what it is today.
• Laurel CanyonUntil a dirt road that later became Laurel Canyon Boulevard was built in 1907, the canyon could be climbed only on foot or by mule.
• Los FelizLos Feliz Heights was first subdivided in 1921, running north from Los Feliz Boulevard to Griffith Park between Catalina and Vermont.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsThe 2018 Woolsey Fire burned through 88 percent of the federal parkland in the Santa Monica Mountains and more than 40 percent of the range's natural area.
• Mar VistaMar Vista went by the name Ocean Park Heights from 1904 to 1924 and became an official city neighborhood in 2006.
• Marina del ReyThe beach-style homes on the strand west of the harbor lie inside the City of Los Angeles yet share Marina del Rey's ZIP code.
• Mid-WilshireOxford Square, a Mid-Wilshire neighborhood, was laid out in 1910 west of the Los Angeles Country Club and served by the Pico Street streetcar line.
• Miracle MileThe May Company department store's 1939 Streamline Moderne building anchored the west end of A. W. Ross's Miracle Mile.
• MonroviaMonrovia is the fourth-oldest general-law city in Los Angeles County, after Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Pasadena.
• Mount OlympusMount Olympus is lined with Japanese pines and Italian cypresses, and the neighborhood is subject to periodic mudslides.
• Nichols CanyonIn 1934 the City Council set aside money for a large debris basin at the foot of Nichols Canyon, which residents had sought.
• North HollywoodUntil the mid-1950s the stretch of Lankershim Boulevard around Magnolia Boulevard held the largest cluster of stores, banks and restaurants in what became North Hollywood.
• NorthridgeBarbara Stanwyck and Marion Marx started Marwyck Ranch in Northridge as a horse breeding farm, and part of it survives as the city's Oakridge Estate Park.
• PalmsThe speculators who subdivided Palms in 1886 planted 5,000 trees along eight miles of graded streets on their 500 acres.
• Pico-RobertsonPico-Robertson has more than thirty certified kosher restaurants, from delis and bakeries to butchers.
• Playa del ReyLocals call the cluster of closely built 1956 apartments nearest the beach, where Culver Boulevard meets Vista del Mar, The Jungle.
• Playa VistaHughes Aircraft Company had its headquarters on the land that is now Playa Vista from 1941 to 1985.
• Porter RanchTexas oil well firefighters led by Red Adair came to Oat Mountain above Porter Ranch in 1968 and put out a blaze there after six days.
• Rancho Palos VerdesFrank Vanderlip, called the Father of Palos Verdes, is credited with bringing the peafowl that still roam the peninsula around 1910.
• Rancho ParkThe Los Angeles Times' Mapping L.A. project counted 5,464 people in Rancho Park in 2009, a small residential enclave between West Los Angeles and Cheviot Hills.
• Redondo BeachThe 2020 census counted 30,999 housing units in Redondo Beach, 4.9 percent of them vacant.
• ResedaReseda began in 1912 as the town of Marian, named for Marian Otis Chandler, daughter of Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis.
• Rolling HillsThe only commercially zoned land in Rolling Hills holds its City Hall, the community association and a county fire station, so residents shop and go to school in the other peninsula towns.
• Rolling Hills EstatesThe 2020 census found 3,220 housing units in Rolling Hills Estates, 3,030 of them occupied.
• San Fernando ValleyBecause it lies inland, the San Fernando Valley usually has hotter summer days and colder winter nights than the Los Angeles Basin.
• San GabrielSan Gabriel first appeared as a city in the 1920 census, having been part of the unincorporated San Gabriel Township before then.
• San Gabriel ValleyCovering about 200 square miles, the San Gabriel Valley takes in 31 cities and five unincorporated communities and is now almost entirely urbanized.
• SawtelleIn 1896 the Pacific Land Company bought a 225-acre tract just south of the veterans' home and hired S. H. Taft to build the town that became Sawtelle.
• Sherman OaksHomeowners in the Chandler Estates area successfully petitioned in 1991 to have Sherman Oaks' boundary pushed north to Burbank Boulevard.
• Sierra MadreA 1921 bakery fire at Windsor Lane and Montecito Court led Sierra Madre to formally organize its volunteer fire department, the last one left in greater Los Angeles before it went paid.
• Silver LakeThe Ivanhoe tract north of the reservoir, developed by Byram & Poindexter as early as 1887, has streets named for works and characters of British literature.
• South BayHonda keeps its North American headquarters in Torrance, one of the sixteen South Bay cities.
• South PasadenaSouth Pasadena has fought the extension of the 710 Freeway through the city in litigation that has run for more than 50 years.
• Sunset StripIn the 1930s and 1940s, Sunset Strip nightclubs such as Ciro's, the Mocambo and the Trocadero drew a movie-industry crowd.
• TarzanaLos Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis personally acquired 550 acres at the center of today's Tarzana, the tract Edgar Rice Burroughs later bought from him.
• Temple CityThe town was first called City of Temple, but in 1926 the Postmaster General demanded a new name because its mail kept going to Tempe, Arizona.
• Toluca LakeThe Lakeside golf course, designed by Max Behr in 1924, drew actor Richard Arlen, one of Toluca Lake's first residents and later its honorary mayor.
• TopangaTopanga is the largest unincorporated area of Los Angeles County by land area, though most of it remains undeveloped.
• TorranceThe Old Torrance downtown was laid out on a diagonal so that ocean breezes would carry industrial pollution away from its homes and shops.
• Valley GlenThe Great Wall of Los Angeles in Valley Glen portrays the history of California as seen through the eyes of women and minorities along the walls of the Tujunga Wash.
• Valley VillageAbout 300 homeowners met in 1985 to push for a Valley Village separate from North Hollywood, and the city put up seven blue reflective markers for the neighborhood in 1991.
• Van NuysThe 1932 Art Deco Valley Municipal Building, Van Nuys City Hall, made Van Nuys the San Fernando Valley's satellite civic center for Los Angeles.
• VeniceLos Angeles did not pave Pacific Avenue in Venice, then called Trolleyway, until 1954.
• West HillsIn January 1987 a council member accepted petitions from 3,364 of the 4,333 households in western Canoga Park asking to form the neighborhood of West Hills.
• West HollywoodWest Hollywood's cluster of interior designers, decorators and to-the-trade furnishing showrooms dates back to its years as a less restricted county enclave favored by film people.
• WestchesterEarly Westchester was so thoroughly residential that it had no police station, fire station or hospital even after it reached 30,000 residents.
• Westlake VillageMore than half of the original Westlake development lies across the county line in Thousand Oaks, which annexed 8,544 acres of it in 1968 and 1972.
• WestsideThe Westside as mapped by the Los Angeles Times reaches past the City of Los Angeles to take in several independent cities and two unincorporated county neighborhoods.
• WestwoodWestwood's warmest weather comes late in the year, with highs in the upper 70s toward the end of summer and into early fall.
• Windsor SquareIn 1958 the J. Paul Getty Company bought a house on Irving Boulevard intending to build a headquarters there, but Windsor Square residents blocked the plan.
• Woodland HillsOvernight winter temperatures in Woodland Hills can be among the lowest in the San Fernando Valley.