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Los
Angeles is the scene of the famous
LA July 4th AmericaFest celebration,
one of the most elaborate and
spectacular fireworks displays in
the country. The Rose Bowl is an
outdoor athletic stadium in
Pasadena, California, U.S., in Los
Angeles County. The stadium is the
site of the annual college football
bowl game, the Rose Bowl, held on
New Year's Day. In 1982, it became
the home field of the UCLA Bruins
college football team of the Pac-10
Conference. It hosted events during
the 1932 and 1984 Olympics,[6] and
was the venue for the 1994 FIFA
World Cup Final and the 1999 FIFA
Women's World Cup Final.
The
natural grass playing field runs in
a north–south configuration and sits
at an elevation of 825 feet (251 m)
above sea level. The stadium is a
National Historic Landmark Its
design was based upon the Yale Bowl
in New Haven, Connecticut.
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles
County, California, United States.
Although famous for hosting the
annual Rose Bowl football game and
Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena
is the home to many scientific and
cultural institutions, including the
California Institute of Technology
(Caltech), the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena City College (PCC),
Fuller Theological Seminary, Art
Center College of Design, the
Pasadena Playhouse, California
School of Culinary Arts Pasadena,
the Norton Simon Museum of Art and
the Pacific Asia Museum. As of 2010
United States Census, the population
of Pasadena was 147,112, making it
the 180th-largest city in the United
States, down from 168th place in
2009. Pasadena is the
seventh-largest city in Los Angeles
County, and on June 19, 1886, became
the fourth to be incorporated in Los
Angeles County, after Anaheim (March
18 1876) and Santa Ana (June 1
1886), which were part of Los
Angeles County until Orange County
was formed in 1889. It was largely
as a ploy to get rid of its saloons.
It is one of the primary cultural
centers of the San Gabriel Valley.
Los
Angeles County (incorporated as the
County of Los Angeles)[3] is a
county in the U.S. state of
California. As of 2010 U.S. Census,
the county had a population of
9,818,605, making it the most
populous county in the United
States. Los Angeles County alone is
more populous than 42 individual
U.S. states. The county seat is the
city of Los Angeles, the largest
city in California and the
second-largest city in the United
States (after New York City). The
county is home to 88 incorporated
cities and many unincorporated
areas. At 4,083 square miles (10,570
km2), it is larger than the combined
areas of the states of Rhode Island
and Delaware.
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