Results of the 2025 homelessness count in Los Angeles County might be a bit encouraging.
Photo by Jack Gaunt in the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library.
1966. The Williams family of Salt Lake City bed down in sleeping bags on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on the night before the Tournament of Roses Parade. Considered to be one of the most famous parades held in the world, the Rose Parade was first held in 1890 before 3,000 spectators. Today, an estimated 700,000 spectators descend on Pasadena (easily overwhelming the city of 200,000). The parade is also seen by another 37 million television viewers from around the world. A bit of trivia: the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade was America's first live national color television broadcast.
Los Angeles was not orginally an American city. The U.S. military seized it from Mexico.
