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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1019692" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 4 September 1781, Los Angeles was founded.The Mexican Provincial Governor, Felipe de Neve, founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles, originally named Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, by Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest, who had noticed the beautiful area as they traveled north from San Diego in 1769. El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles translates into the Village of our Lady, the Queen of the Angels ... L.A. for short. Mexico ceded California to the United States in 1848, and Los Angeless, the capital of Alta California, a Mexican Province, came with it. Once a quiet, little village, the discovery of oil in the 1890s started an expansion that has grown to be the home of more than 8 1/2 million people (approx. 3 1/2 million in the actual city limits). Hollywood, movie stars, Disneyland, freeways, Beverly Hills, earthquakes, fires, floods and many othernews items have&nbsp; all managed to keep the City of Angels on the map, so to speak.What it looked like in 1850:<img src="http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p525/yoseft/0904.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1019692, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 4 September 1781, Los Angeles was founded. [/B] [B]The Mexican Provincial Governor, Felipe de Neve, founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles, originally named Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, by Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest, who had noticed the beautiful area as they traveled north from San Diego in 1769. El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles translates into the Village of our Lady, the Queen of the Angels ... L.A. for short. [/B][B]Mexico ceded California to the United States in 1848, and Los Angeless, the capital of Alta California, a Mexican Province, came with it. Once a quiet, little village, the discovery of oil in the 1890s started an expansion that has grown to be the home of more than 8 1/2 million people (approx. 3 1/2 million in the actual city limits). Hollywood, movie stars, Disneyland, freeways, Beverly Hills, earthquakes, fires, floods and many other news items have all managed to keep the City of Angels on the map, so to speak. What it looked like in 1850: [IMG]http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p525/yoseft/0904.jpg[/IMG][/B] [/QUOTE]

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