Median household incomes, among Los Angeles County zip codes, range from $31,000 to more than $241,000.
Photo from the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library.
1956. Fishermen sort nets at Fisherman's Wharf at Los Angeles Harbor. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the nation’s largest fishing port. Driven by Japanese, Italian and Croation fishermen, L.A.’s fishing industry peaked during World War II, with its massive tuna canning operations. It fed approximately 80% of the nation’s appetite for tuna. The industry, however, began to decline in the 1950s, due to emerging foreign competition. By 2001, the Chicken of the Sea cannery on Terminal Island remained as the nation’s last major tuna cannery on the U.S. mainland. It finally succumbed that year and closed, ending L.A.’s historic tuna industry.
The second most intense earthquake ever recorded in the United States occured in the Los Angeles area.
