A report on Southern California, Orange County, California and Los Angeles Times

The July 10, 2021 front page
of the Los Angeles Times

Sunset in Venice, a neighborhood in Los Angeles

Laguna Beach (with Newport beach in background).

Los Angeles County before the secession of Orange County in 1889

Rubble of the L.A. Times building after the 1910 bombing

California counties below the 36th standard parallel

A billboard for Nixon's Restaurant in Orange County, circa 1955

Times newspaper vending machine featuring news of the 1984 Summer Olympics

One of the few remaining farms near the ocean, 1975. Photo by Charles O'Rear.

Abandoned Los Angeles Times vending machine in Covina, California, in 2011

Percent of households with incomes above $150k across LA County census tracts.

Three Arch Bay in Laguna Beach, Southern Orange County

Partial front page of the Los Angeles Times for Monday, April 24, 1922, displaying coverage of a Ku Klux Klan raid in an L.A. suburb

Köppen climate types of southern California

View of Newport Center and the Santa Ana Mountains from Newport Harbor

Front page of the debut (March 25, 1903) issue of the short-lived The Wireless, published in Avalon

Aerial view of an edge city: Irvine Business Complex (top), John Wayne Airport runway (upper center), South Coast Metro buildings (lower center) and below, the South Coast Plaza mall

2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus

Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley from over Costa Mesa

<center>The 1886 Times building, northeast corner 1st/Broadway</center>

Satellite view of southern California, including the Channel Islands

Major facilities in the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city, plus the locations of the adjacent downtowns

<center>Times 1886 building after bombing on October 1, 1910</center>

Peaks in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Angeles National Forest, San Bernardino County.

Orange County Density Map. Darker shades indicate more densely populated areas.

Los Angeles Times Building, corner of 1st/Spring

Yucca Valley with Visitor Center in Background in June 2017.

The developing urban core in the City of Irvine.

<center>The 1948 Crawford Addition (or Mirror Building), NW corner 2nd/Spring, 2020</center>

1973 Pereira Addition, SE corner 1st/Broadway

State Route 1 winds down the coast over Corona Del Mar State Beach

Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC)

The Oceanside Pier on the San Diego County coast

Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center

1965 aerial photo of Anaheim Disneyland, Disneyland Hotel with its Monorail Station. The Disneyland Heliport, surrounding orange groves, Santa Ana Freeway (now I-5) and the Melodyland Theater "in the round," and part of the City of Anaheim. Anaheim Stadium can be seen under construction near the upper left.

Street banners promoting the county's two major league teams, the Ducks and the Angels.

Interstate and state highway system of Southern California

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's combined Super Chief-El Capitan pulls into Los Angeles's Union Passenger Terminal on September 24, 1966.

Blooming Roses at Huntington Library in San Marino, Los Angeles County, April 2022

Orange County is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California.

- Orange County, California

The region generally contains ten of California's 58 counties: Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties.

- Southern California

In 1900, the Los Angeles Times defined Southern California as including "the seven counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura and Santa Barbara."

- Southern California

She speculated that the paper's revenue shortfall could be reversed by expanding coverage of economic justice topics, which she believed were increasingly relevant to Southern California; she cited the paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach.

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The Times closed its San Fernando Valley printing plant in early 2006, leaving press operations to the Olympic plant and to Orange County.

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This prompted media outlets to declare Orange County's Republican leanings "dead", with the Los Angeles Times running an op-ed titled, "An obituary to old Orange County, dead at age 129."

- Orange County, California

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Greater Los Angeles

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Greater Los Angeles in yellow and peach; urbanized areas in gray; Los Angeles proper lined in blue; Los Angeles metropolitan area lined in red.

Many areas are completely filled with houses, buildings, roads, and freeways as observed in Vermont Vista, a Los Angeles neighborhood.

Aerial view of Newport Beach in Orange County

Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park

Laguna Beach coastline is popular for sunbathers

Warner Brothers Studios in the San Fernando Valley

Cal State LA's The Golden Eagle, consisting of two adjoining structures separated by a promenade.

Rush hour on the Harbor Freeway, Downtown

UCLA–USC rivalry, both universities are located in Los Angeles and are members of the Pac-12 Conference. The rivalry between the two is among the more unusual in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sports, because the campuses are only 12 miles (19 km) apart, and both are located within the same megacity.

Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the United States with a population of 18.5 million as of 2021, encompassing five counties in southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast.

The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of several well-known media companies including: the Los Angeles Times, Fox Broadcasting Company, Universal Studios, and The Walt Disney Company.

University of Southern California

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Private research university in Los Angeles, California.

Robert M. Widney, founder of the university, photographed in 1885

The Widney Alumni House, the campus's first building

"Tommy Trojan" is a major symbol of the university, though he is not the mascot.

The Bovard Auditorium houses many of USC's administrative offices as well as the auditorium

Zumberge Hall, one of the original buildings on the University Park Campus

The Center for International and Public Affairs, topped by a 5500 lb globe, is the tallest structure on campus. Built under the second master plan, it reflects a trend towards modernism during that period.

Waite Phillips Hall, home to the USC Rossier School of Education, is one of the university's main landmarks

The original Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center

Bovard Hall, shortly after completion in 1921; the streets later became pedestrian-only

The Gwynn Wilson Student Union on the University Park campus

The Law School building is one of the handful of examples of Brutalist architecture on the main campus.

The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

The Leavey Library, completed in the mid-1990s, reflected a shift to earlier Romanesque architecture in that era. It is USC's newest library

The Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre, where the THX sound system was first developed and installed by Tomlinson Holman.

The Galen Center, home of USC basketball and volleyball

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during a USC football game

USC mascot Traveler with Trojan Warrior and The Spirit of Troy

During the week prior to the traditional USC-UCLA rivalry football game, the Tommy Trojan statue is covered to prevent UCLA vandalism.

The drum major of the Spirit of Troy wears a more elaborate uniform and conducts the band with a sword.

The Song Girls celebrating a USC Trojans football victory

Fountain outside of Doheny Library with the Center for International and Public Affairs; both buildings were used in the film The Graduate as stand-ins for UC Berkeley.

After this contest, Los Angeles Times sportswriter Owen Bird reported the USC athletes "fought on like the Trojans of antiquity", and the president of the university at the time, George F. Bovard, approved the name officially.

USC also operates an Orange County center in Irvine for business, pharmacy, social work, and education, and the Information Sciences Institute, with centers in Arlington, Virginia, and Marina del Rey.

The USC School of Architecture was established in 1916, the first in Southern California.

San Diego County, California

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County in the southwestern corner of the state of California, in the United States.

Many of the cities seen from the sky as part of the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area.

Beach at Border State Park; San Diego is on the right while Tijuana is on the left.

Border fence between Tijuana (right) and San Diego's border patrol offices (left)

Horton Plaza, before its demolition in 2020

North County communities. Coastal cities are in dark blue, unincorporated coastal communities are in light blue. Inland cities are in dark yellow, unincorporated inland communities are in light yellow. Parts of northern San Diego are sometimes considered part of North County, as are much of the white areas north of the city.

East County communities in red. In dark red are the cities and towns of Santee and El Cajon which mark the western edge of East County. Unincorporated communities are in light red, including Lakeside and Alpine.

South Bay communities of San Diego County. The cities and towns of National City, Chula Vista, and Imperial Beach are in dark orange. The unincorporated community of Bonita is in light orange. San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, neighborhoods of the city of San Diego, are in pink.

From north to south, San Diego County extends from the southern borders of Orange and Riverside Counties to the Mexico-U.S. border and the Baja California municipalities of Tijuana and Tecate.

It is located on the Southern California coast, bordered by Oceanside to the south, San Clemente to the north, and Fallbrook to the east.

The Los Angeles Times is also delivered in portions of the county.