LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE…

It was winter when I first landed on California’s star city. I can simply hear the sound of the waves splashing on the shore. Channeling into the wilderness of my mind, without any hesitation, I paved the way to this great place. Visualize the drama in some of the old architectural and historic buildings, collaborating with the fad of the new design and innovative style.

In the place called “the land of earthquakes," a person would refuse to address anything earthshaking, but L.A.’s transformation and odyssey from a strand of born-yesterday suburbs (where I grew up) to a real, hip, modish and unified city registers high on the cultural Richter scale. L.A. hasn’t lost its great historical markers—beaches, traffic signs, those movie studios. It still has strip but hip malls and housing tracts, but it also has a developing downtown slowly making its way to success—whose population has made it twice (from 18,000 to 36,000) since the late '90s. The promulgation of new structures there and elsewhere in the city has made the people of Los Angeles notice venerable, ignored ones—and, astonishingly, help stave off their decline in the graph. Quite simply, L.A. has climbed to its past—its people, its places, its stories.