People who haven’t lived in Los Angeles perceive it as a city of transients, which I suppose is an improvement over the notion that Los Angeles isn’t a city at all. In popular imagination, Los Angeles's origins date to the early 20th century—specifically 1911, when D.W. Griffith’s move from New York signaled the film industry’s permanent relocation here…
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