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The rambling metropolis of LOS ANGELES
sprawls across the thousand square miles of a
great desert basin, knitted together by an intricate
network of congested freeways between the ocean and the
snowcapped mountains. Its colorful melange of shopping
malls, palm trees and swimming pools is both mildly
surreal and startlingly familiar, thanks to the
celluloid self-image that it has spread all over the
world.
LA is a young city; in the mid-nineteenth century, it
was a community of white American immigrants, poor
Chinese laborers and wealthy Mexican ranchers, with a
population of less than fifty thousand. Only on
completion of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s
did it really begin to grow, as a national mecca for
good health, clean living, plentiful sunshine and
endless acres of citrus crops. The biggest group of
transplants were refugees from the Midwest, who created
a new political ruling class to replace the old Mexican
elite. The old ranchos were soon subdivided, the
population grew rapidly, and the enduring symbol of the
city became the family-sized suburban house (with
swimming pool and two-car garage). The biggest boom came
after World War II with the mushrooming of the
aeronautics industry - which, until post-Cold War
military cutbacks, accounted for one in four jobs.
The first-time visitor may well find Los Angeles
thrilling and threatening in equal proportions; it's a
place that picks you up and sweeps you along whether you
want it to or not. While it has its fine-art museums,
California cuisine and a few old-fashioned urban plazas,
what people really come here for is to experience the
city that has come to epitomize the American Dream - the
fantasy worlds of Disneyland and Hollywood
, as well as the gilded opulence of Beverly Hills
and Malibu .
The City
With only limited space between the desert, the
mountains and the ocean, LA has long since filled in the
gaps between what were once small and isolated towns. As
a result, it's a massive conglomeration of
interconnected, amorphous districts, often with...
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Reality matches the myths
in many ways, though. In the middle of the state, Orlando
stands as the undisputed capital of the theme park.
Along the Atlantic coast, Miami simmers with Caribbean
and Latin American flair, and sights such as alligators
in the Everglades and the space shuttle at the Kennedy
Space Center allow you to enjoyably combine education
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