From the 1890s through the 1930s Los Angeles was transformed from a backwater ranching region into a modern industrial and agricultural city.
Future oil magnate Edward L. Doheny discovered oil near the La Brea Tar Pits in 1892, and by 1915 huge oilfields had developed south of downtown Los Angeles. (There are still hundreds of active oil wells throughout the urban area; some are even between homes within downtown Los Angeles.)
Cheap plentiful oil, in turn, helped stimulate the automobile and rubber industries. Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler all built major factories in Los Angeles County, and Goodrich, Goodyear, and Firestone built large rubber tire plants in the city.
By the 1930s the City of Los Angeles ranked second only to Detroit, Michigan, in automobile production and second only to Akron, Ohio, in rubber production.
In the same period Los Angeles also developed a unique and prosperous semi-urban agricultural crop economy. Thousands of acres of land within or around the metropolitan area—especially in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys—were cultivated with orange trees and many other fruits and vegetables.
Worked primarily by immigrant Mexican and Japanese seasonal laborers and irrigated with Owens Valley water, these orchards and fields provided trainloads of produce for the eastern United States. But in this period, Los Angeles became better known for developing two of the United States’s most important 20th-century industries: motion pictures and aircraft.
(1) ROLE OF MOTION PICTURES
(2) ROLE OF AIR-CRAFT
Future oil magnate Edward L. Doheny discovered oil near the La Brea Tar Pits in 1892, and by 1915 huge oilfields had developed south of downtown Los Angeles. (There are still hundreds of active oil wells throughout the urban area; some are even between homes within downtown Los Angeles.)
Cheap plentiful oil, in turn, helped stimulate the automobile and rubber industries. Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler all built major factories in Los Angeles County, and Goodrich, Goodyear, and Firestone built large rubber tire plants in the city.
By the 1930s the City of Los Angeles ranked second only to Detroit, Michigan, in automobile production and second only to Akron, Ohio, in rubber production.
In the same period Los Angeles also developed a unique and prosperous semi-urban agricultural crop economy. Thousands of acres of land within or around the metropolitan area—especially in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys—were cultivated with orange trees and many other fruits and vegetables.
Worked primarily by immigrant Mexican and Japanese seasonal laborers and irrigated with Owens Valley water, these orchards and fields provided trainloads of produce for the eastern United States. But in this period, Los Angeles became better known for developing two of the United States’s most important 20th-century industries: motion pictures and aircraft.
(1) ROLE OF MOTION PICTURES
(2) ROLE OF AIR-CRAFT
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