Californians love yachting and go sailing to Catalina and other offshore islands every weekend, and they flock to the air shows every autumn. And nearly everyone has a favorite horse at the track, or a dog at the dog races. On Sundays they read a newspaper 30 centimeters thick that tells them what they can do, except it takes most of the day to read the paper. Just to drive across LA can take a day. It doesn't have one predominant center, unless you want to call downtown LA around Avarado Street the main part of town.
LA is actually a conglomeration of many small suburbs.
More than 25O Thai restaurants in Los Angeles. Here two diners sit with a painting of the king and Queen on the wall. The two largest minorities are the 200,000 Iranians and an equal number of Salvadoreans. Then come the Thais. The US Immigration Service estimates there are more than 70,000 in the Los Angles area, with 253 Thai restaurants.