Founded: 1781; Incorporated: 1850 Location: Pacific Coast of southern California, United States, North America Time Zone: 4 am Pacific Standard Time (PST) = noon Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Flag: Adopted in 1931, flag features the city seal centered on three panels (left to right): green symbolizing olive trees, yellow symbolizing orange groves, and red symbolizing
You know the Hollywood sign, the Lakers, and the traffic, but here are a few Los Angeles nuggets that may have slipped past you. 1. When L.A. was founded, the city’s full name was “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles sobre el Rio Porciuncula.” (If your Spanish is rusty, that translates to
Social media is here to stay as a valuable tool for human resources professionals. “The good news is that L.A. County is starting to realize how people work on social media, that it’s only going to increase, and we are finally meeting that need head‐on,” said David Sommers, Director of Public Affairs for the Chief
