| LOS ANGELES a metropolis, which spans across a | | | | experience the city that has come to epitomize |
| thousand square miles of the great desert basin, | | | | the American Dream. This is where teens come |
| mixed together with congested freeways that | | | | to try to become actors and |
| run between the ocean and the mountains.LA is | | | | stars.Recommendation for first time visitors is to |
| still considered a young city. In the mid-nineteenth | | | | visit places such as Universal Studios, Mann's |
| century, it was a community of white American | | | | Chinese Theatre, Venice Beach Boardwalk, Watt's |
| immigrants, poor Chinese laborers, and wealthy | | | | Towers, Melrose Avenue, Rodeo Drive, Walt |
| Mexican ranchers, with a population of less than | | | | Disney Concert Hall, and let us not forget about |
| fifty thousand. Definitely, a difference from what | | | | the amusement parks such as Knott's Berry |
| it is now. LA is known for it shopping malls, palm | | | | Farm, Magic Mountain, and Disneyland.With all the |
| trees, and swimming pools. The celluloid self-image | | | | entertainment available in Los Angeles, you are |
| of Los Angeles is known all over the world.The | | | | sure to see a Celebrity or two while you are out |
| first-time visitor to Los Angeles may well find it to | | | | and about. There are many things to do in LA, |
| be thrilling and threatening in equal proportions. It is | | | | how about just hanging out at the beach and |
| a very fast-paced city and it will pick you up and | | | | relaxing or surfing in the Pacific Ocean. Many |
| sweep you along whether you want it to or not. | | | | things are within driving distance from LA as |
| While Los Angeles has many fine-art museums, | | | | well.Check with your local travel agency for |
| California cuisine and a few old-fashioned urban | | | | excellent packages to the Los Angeles area. |
| plazas, what people really come here for is to | | | | |