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• Agoura HillsAgoura Hills took its one-word name in 1927 from a misspelling of Pierre Agoure, a Basque sheep herder who had settled in the area.
• AlhambraShakey's Pizza has a headquarters in Alhambra, and The Hat opened its original family-owned outdoor restaurant there in 1951.
• ArcadiaWestfield Santa Anita's 2005 expansion added a food court and a cluster of full-service eateries known as Restaurant Square.
• Beverly GroveQuiet streets within easy reach of shops, restaurants and museums are what the Los Angeles Conservancy singles out about Beverly Grove.
• BeverlywoodEven with a homes association enforcing design rules, Beverlywood has lately become a hotspot for mansionization.
• BradburyBradbury appears on the county's grading list as a city that has not adopted the restaurant and market grading ordinance.
• BurbankBurbank adopted Los Angeles County's restaurant grading ordinance in September 2000, and it took effect that November.
• Canoga ParkThe Canoga Park Airstrip once occupied the land now known as Warner Center.
• CarthayCarthay is bounded by Wilshire Boulevard on the north, Fairfax Avenue on the east, Pico Boulevard on the south and La Cienega Boulevard on the west.
• Century CityCentury City's towers make it one of the most prominent employment centers in the Los Angeles area and give the Westside a distinctive skyline.
• ChatsworthAfter the United States took over the land, Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando, which included Chatsworth, was the largest such grant in California.
• Cheviot HillsFrom the 1920s until 1953, Pacific Electric's Santa Monica Air Line ran along the southern edge of Cheviot Hills toward downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
• Culver CityCulver City adopted Los Angeles County's restaurant grading ordinance in April 2002, and the letter grades took effect the next month.
• Del ReyDel Rey holds a police station, a public middle school and six public elementary schools, and it is served by a neighborhood council and a residents association.
• Echo ParkTwo of the five California restaurants on the third annual New York Times Restaurant List were in Echo Park, the Korean-inspired Perilla LA and the pizzeria Quarter Sheets.
• El SegundoThe Los Angeles Times moved its newsroom from downtown Los Angeles to a campus in El Segundo in 2018.
• EncinoPaul Thomas Anderson set most of his 2021 film Licorice Pizza in 1970s Encino.
• FairfaxThe Farmers Market at Fairfax Avenue and 3rd Street still keeps a 1930s atmosphere, with open-air produce stalls, cafes and prepared-food vendors.
• GlendaleGlendale's food culture reflects its immigrant history, with Filipino, Armenian and Iranian cuisines among its many international kitchens.
• Granada HillsOrange, lemon and grapefruit trees still growing in many Granada Hills yards are leftovers of the groves that once covered the area.
• Hermosa BeachPier Avenue, which runs down to the Hermosa Beach Pier, is one of the town's main shopping, dining and entertainment streets.
• Hidden HillsHidden Hills is one of the handful of cities marked No on the county's list of adopters of the restaurant and market grading system.
• HollywoodAfter Hollywood voters banned liquor sales in January 1904, neither hotels nor restaurants there could serve wine or liquor before or after meals.
• Hollywood / Central LAIn the city's planning scheme, Central Los Angeles is an Area Planning Commission area built from six community plan areas, among them Central City, Wilshire and Hollywood.
• Hollywood HillsBoth the Hollywood Bowl and the John Anson Ford Theater sit inside the Hollywood Hills neighborhood, along with the Hollywood Reservoir.
• Hollywood Hills WestOutpost Drive marks the eastern edge of Hollywood Hills West, and Mulholland Drive caps it on the north.
• KoreatownBy 2020, Koreatown was known for one of the largest concentrations of nightclubs and 24-hour businesses and restaurants in the country.
• La Cañada FlintridgeLa Cañada Flintridge adopted the county's restaurant grading ordinance in December 1998, with the grades taking effect in January 1999.
• Lake BalboaIn 2000 the share of Lake Balboa residents aged 35 to 49 was among the highest in the county.
• Larchmont VillageLarchmont has served as a backdrop for motion picture shoots from the early days of film through recent years.
• Laurel CanyonWhat is now the Laurel Canyon neighborhood started as a getaway that early developers laid out on Lookout Mountain's flank.
• Los FelizBeyond its hillside homes, Los Feliz has several coffee shops and restaurants alongside small clothing and vintage stores.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsA cold storm on January 17, 2007 left three inches of snow on the hills above Malibu, the first measurable snowfall there in fifty years.
• Mar VistaMar Vista joined Los Angeles in 1927 as the 70th community the city annexed.
• Marina del ReyDining cruises, yacht charters and paddleboard rentals draw visitors to Marina del Rey, whose harbor has slips for about 5,000 boats.
• Mid-WilshireMid-Wilshire has a high concentration of Ethiopian restaurants and a significant population of Ethiopian and Eritrean ancestry.
• Miracle MileMiracle Mile's Wilshire frontage is known as Museum Row, and the Farmers Market and The Grove sit on its northern border.
• MonroviaIn 1937, Patrick McDonald opened a food stand called The Airdrome on Huntington Drive near the old Monrovia Airport, where it stayed until 1940.
• Mount OlympusMount Olympus is considered a subdistrict of Laurel Canyon, and the trees along its streets are Japanese pines or Italian cypresses.
• Nichols CanyonNichols Canyon was also known as Miller Canyon, after avocado grower Jacob Miller, who bought seventy acres there with his wife Dorothy in 1879.
• North HollywoodLankershim Boulevard at Magnolia was the heart of North Hollywood and, until the mid-1950s, held its largest cluster of stores, banks, restaurants and entertainment.
• NorthridgeCivic leader Carl S. Dentzel renamed North Los Angeles as Northridge Village in 1938, the name that later shortened to Northridge.
• PalmsPalms has many Indonesian, Indian and Pakistani restaurants and is one of the centers of the Brazilian community in Los Angeles.
• Pico-RobertsonThe Pico-Robertson area counts more than thirty kosher restaurants, delis and bakeries among them, along with Chinese, Italian and Mexican places.
• Playa del ReyBusinesses in Playa del Rey are limited to parts of Manchester Avenue, Pershing Drive and Culver Boulevard, mostly restaurants and a pharmacy set among homes.
• Playa VistaHughes Aircraft kept its headquarters on the Playa Vista site from 1941 to 1985 and built the Spruce Goose aircraft there.
• Porter RanchBuilding State Route 118, just south of and parallel to Rinaldi Street, meant clearing around 50 houses from the first Porter Ranch tract.
• Rancho Palos VerdesBy 1882 the Rancho Palos Verdes land had passed to Jotham Bixby of Rancho Los Cerritos, who leased it to Japanese farmers.
• Rancho ParkHeavy traffic on Pico Boulevard, including the stretch by the Westside Pavilion mall, cuts through the center of an otherwise quiet Rancho Park.
• Redondo BeachRedondo Beach's council adopted the county's restaurant grading ordinance in January 2004, and the grades took effect in February.
• ResedaReseda's central business district began developing in 1915, and earthquakes struck the neighborhood in 1971 and 1994.
• Rolling HillsRolling Hills has no traffic lights, and its homeowners are required to paint their houses white on the outside.
• Rolling Hills EstatesRolling Hills Estates adopted the county's restaurant and market grading ordinance on July 28, 1998.
• San Fernando ValleyMulholland Drive, running along the Santa Monica Mountains ridgeline, marks where the Valley stops, and its summer days usually run hotter than those in the Los Angeles Basin.
• San GabrielSecond- and third-generation Chinese Americans patronize San Gabriel's diverse array of stores and eateries, in a city that mixes Asian, European and North American cultures.
• San Gabriel ValleyNamed for the river that flows south through its center, the San Gabriel Valley holds 31 cities and five unincorporated communities, with Pasadena the largest of them.
• SawtelleThe Pacific Land Company developed Sawtelle and named it for its manager, W. E. Sawtelle.
• Sherman OaksIn 1991, homeowners in the Chandler Estates area won a redrawing of the Sherman Oaks boundaries so their streets would fall inside it.
• Sierra MadreWaldo Ward & Son, a maker of artisanal preserves and specialty foods, was founded in Sierra Madre and is still run by descendants of E. Waldo Ward.
• Silver LakeBefore the reservoir lent it a new name, Silver Lake was a small community called Ivanhoe, after the 1819 Walter Scott novel.
• South BayAerospace has long anchored the South Bay economy, and Northrop Grumman makes F/A-18 Hornet fuselages at its El Segundo plant.
• South PasadenaThe Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain and the 1925 Rialto Theater, a blend of Spanish Baroque and Egyptian styles, are among South Pasadena's historic spots.
• Sunset StripThe Strip lay beyond the reach of the Los Angeles Police Department until West Hollywood became a city in 1984, and it built a name as loosely regulated ground.
• TarzanaInvestors turned Tarzana's grazing land into large wheat farms in the 1870s, and the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company bought the area in 1909.
• Temple CityTemple City approved the county's restaurant grading ordinance on February 4, 1998, nearly two weeks before the City of Los Angeles did.
• Toluca LakeBefore the Los Angeles River was paved in 1938 and wells lowered the water table, artesian springs fed the private lake behind the Toluca Lake name.
• TopangaBy area, no unincorporated place in the county is larger than Topanga, and most of it is still open land.
• TorranceTorrance is home to the main bakery of King's Hawaiian, the dominant brand of Hawaiian bread in North America.
• Valley GlenAlong the concrete banks of the Tujunga Wash in Valley Glen runs the Great Wall of Los Angeles, credited as one of the longest murals in the world.
• Valley VillageIn December 1985 about 300 Valley Village homeowners met at Colfax Avenue Elementary to fight what they called stucco mountains, and the city Planning Commission later recommended a three-story limit.
• Van NuysThe Suburban Homes Company laid out the towns of Van Nuys, Reseda and Owensmouth, and Henry E. Huntington extended his Pacific Electric Red Cars through the Valley to Owensmouth.
• VeniceMany of the early 1900s buildings in Venice were built to emulate Italian Renaissance architecture, a nod to the city it was modeled on.
• West HillsMountain ranges border West Hills on the west, with Chatsworth to the north, Canoga Park to the east and Woodland Hills to the south.
• West HollywoodWest Hollywood adopted the county's restaurant and market grading ordinance in May 2001, and it took effect that June.
• WestchesterWestchester takes in the whole of Los Angeles International Airport, plus a two-block-wide shoestring strip that reaches out to the Hyde Park neighborhood.
• Westlake VillageDole Food Company was headquartered in Westlake Village, a small Conejo Valley city west of downtown Los Angeles.
• WestsideAsked where the Westside ends, Los Angeles Times readers sent in more than 300 maps, and La Cienega Boulevard was the street they named most often.
• WestwoodThe stretch of Westwood Boulevard known as Tehrangeles has been a hub of Persian restaurants, grocery stores and bookstores since the 1960s.
• Windsor SquareThe official residence of the mayor of Los Angeles stands in Windsor Square, a small historic neighborhood served by a vest-pocket park.
• Woodland HillsVentura Boulevard, the Valley's main thoroughfare, reaches its western end at Valley Circle Boulevard in Woodland Hills.