For more than a quarter century, the Los Angeles Almanac has relied upon the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service for our weather data pages. We are efforts by the current administration in Washington, D.C., to cripple the scientific and public service work at these government agencies by firing vital workers. In addition to a dangerous disservice to the public, these actions threaten our efforts to provide free and accurate weather/climate data for Los Angeles County.
There are 4.8 million people working in Los Angeles County. A bit more than 1 in 5 are employed by this list of 74 of the county's largest employers.
Photo Photo from the Security National Bank Collection, courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library.
Circa 1905. A portrait of Chinese laborers in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. At the time, persons of Chinese descent numbered about 4,000 in Los Angeles. About five years earlier, the Boxer Rebellion, a violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial and anti-Christian revolt in China, was renounced by the Chinese community in Los Angeles. Also in 1905, Sun Yat-Sen, a physician educated in the U.S. and campaigner to establish a republic in China, visited Los Angeles.
In 1968, Latino high school students at schools in the East Los Angeles area (and one in Venice), walked out of classrooms in protest, only to face the anger and abuse of the authorities.
