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Article: A city of extremes.(20 Years that Changed Los Angeles)(Los Angeles, CA)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 19, 1999
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After World War II, L.A. was seen as a shining Valhalla where everybody owned a house and the sun always shined. Then people thought of it as hell on Earth. It's emerging as an adult city that's somewhere in between.
The last 20 years have been momentous ones for Los Angeles, yet that's not really news. Los Angeles always has been a city of extremes, looming over the global scene in ways often larger than life and, all too often, out of whack with a more prosaic reality.
Yet as we approach the new millennium, perhaps Los Angeles is beginning to achieve something that it has never had - a sense of normalcy and civic identity transcending the twin poles of ...