NEXT L.A. / A look at issues, people and ideas helping to shape the emerging metropolis.
“Somewhere near the heart of the L.A. ethos there lies, unexpectedly, a layer of solid, old-fashioned, plain hard work. This is a city of hard workers.”
JAN MORRIS
Rolling Stone, 1976
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