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Los Angeles was founded in 1781 as one of the two original Spanish
pueblos in California. At the time of statehood in 1851, Los
Angeles began to reconsider its "cow town" condition, and gradually
transformed an American city into the magnificent metropolis we
know today. Drawn from the collections of the University of
Southern California, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the Los
Angeles City Archives, Jeffrey Samudio and Portia Lee record the
history of a community that established itself culturally as it
grew exponentially. By 1945, the small town that had begun with 28
square miles in the late 19th century had grown to 450 square miles
through almost 100 annexations. Businessmen constructed a downtown
streetscape whose architecture elicited envy in other cities,
hotels catered to visitors with such enthusiasm that guests
eventually returned with ambitious schemes of their own, and the
construction of an elaborate freeway system suddenly made Los
Angeles a drive-in city.
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