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100 unusual facts about Los Angeles


1997 New York Liberty season

The Liberty's and WNBA's first game was played on June 21, 1997 in Los Angeles.

Ahmad Sohrab

Later, while living in Los Angeles, he helped write a scenario for a movie dealing with Mary Magdalene, for the actress Valeska Surratt.

Air Pollution Control Act

California was the first state to act against air pollution when the metropolis of Los Angeles began to notice deteriorating air quality.

Al Muratsuchi

He is a Democrat representing the 66th district, encompassing parts of the South Bay, Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County.

Ali Banisadr

Ali Banisadr's work is in the public collections of The British Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, The Olbricht Collection in Germany, Francois Pinault Foundation in Italy, London's The Saatchi Gallery, Vienna's Sammlung Essl, and The Wurth Collection in Germany.

Am. Trucking Ass'ns, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles

In 2006 the Board of Harbor Commissioners for Los Angeles, California adopted an environmental protection plan that included an effort called Clean Truck Program (CTP).

American Cinema Editors Awards 2006

The 56th ACE Eddie Awards of the American Cinema Editors were given on 18 February 2007 in the International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Ángeles González-Sinde

González-Sinde studied Classics at the Complutense University of Madrid and did a Masters in Cinema Scriptwriting at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Arafat Chekrouni

Chekrouni represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he was defeated in the second round by Italy's Paolo Canè.

Avery Clayton

Clayton was born in Los Angeles, the eldest of three sons born to Andrew Clayton, a barbershop owner and Mayme Agnew, a librarian, who over forty years would assemble an impressive collection of African-American artifacts.

Betty Eisner

After returning to the U.S., she earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bigmouth buffalo

Within California they have also been introduced to the aqueduct system of Los Angeles.

Bill Bogash

After retirement in 1958, Bogash went on to be a restaurateur in Los Angeles, California.

Black Cat Squadron

After his retirement, he and his family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1986, where he became an ardent activist for ROCAF POWs' rights, particularly the right of POWs to return to Taiwan to reunite with their families after imprisonment in mainland China.

Blood in My Eyes

On February 24, 2012, it was announced on the band's Twitter that during that week the band would be shooting a music video for the song "Blood in My Eyes" with director Michael Maxxis in Los Angeles, confirming that it would be the third single from the album.

Calochortus palmeri

It is endemic to California, where it is distributed mostly throughout the coastal mountain ranges from the Los Angeles area to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Carton

The next development of folded paper used to construct cartons are mentioned by Dr. Winslow of Seattle, Washington in 1908 who claimed that paper milk containers were commercially sold in San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 1906.

Charles E. Young Research Library

The Charles E. Young Research Library is one of the largest libraries on the campus of UCLA in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Christina DiMartino

During DiMartino's freshman year at UCLA, she was the only freshman to start in all twenty-six matches for the Bruins, scoring five goals and assisting on five.

Claire McNab

She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and now teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.

Classixx

Tyler Blake and Michael David, childhood friends, started a DJ duo in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

In their early twenties, Classixx began to define a new sound for the Los Angeles electronic music scene.

Cliff Solway

Though they tried to live together in Bower's city, Los Angeles, for a time, they did not spend enough time together for the relationship to be viable, as Solway had to spend too much time in Toronto.

Conrad Will

He worked closely with Valerie Silk and the Ironman Triathlon to bring the sport to a larger audience and in 1983 he produced and directed the first ever Ironman “spin-off”, the Ricoh Ironman in Los Angeles.

Court Jesters

In 1994 The Court Jesters sent a team of improvisors to the World Theatresports Championships in Los Angeles.

Douglas Dolphin

The first two were purchased by Wilmington-Catalina Airlines to fly passengers between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island, becoming the first successful Douglas airliners.

Eagle Rock Music Festival

The Eagle Rock Music Festival is an annual street festival in Eagle Rock, California, that takes place in October.

Elscint

The VDP1 product was displayed in trade show in Los Angeles and drew the attention of General Electric, the world leader in medical imaging; and in 1971, Elscint and General Electric signed an exclusive distribution agreement in North America.

Emily Hancock Siedeberg

She married James Alexander McKinnon (died 1949) in Los Angeles on 8 October 1928 and would be known as E.H. Siedeberg McKinnon and Emily H. Siedeberg-McKinnon.

Fambly 42

Fambly 42 is the fourth studio album by San Pedro-based punk band Toys That Kill, released on May 15, 2012 on Recess Records.

FanRocket

FanRocket is a Los Angeles-based creator of online content programming and technologies.

Filmmakers Alliance

Filmmakers Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.

Flagging dance

Flagger groups formed in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles in the late 1990s, and were often part of the backdrop of circuit party events.

Franklin Hills

Franklin Hills, Los Angeles, a small community in the City of Los Angeles, California

Gary Mara

Mara died while holidaying with his family in Los Angeles, when he and his daughter were struck by a speeding drunk driver as they crossed a road.

Give It to Ya

A music video was directed by Jeffery Byrd in 1994 in Los Angeles.

Greater Southwest International Airport

On December 20, 1959, jet service began with American Airlines Boeing 707 flights to Los Angeles.

Hans Uwe Hielscher

In 1985 he worked at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in exchange with Samuel Swartz, and he has been teaching at the University of Redlands in California since 1986.

Harryette Mullen

Mullen has taught at Cornell University, and currently teaches courses in American poetry, African American literature, and creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Hemoglobin D-Punjab

Hemoglobin D-Punjab was first discovered in the early 1950s in a mixed British and American family of Indian origin from the Los Angeles area; hence it is also sometimes called “D Los Angeles”.

Henri Coulette

Coulette was born in Los Angeles, California, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from Los Angeles State College, now known as California State University, Los Angeles.

Herman Leyva Marques

Marquez earned the bantamweight title shot after defeating Ignacio Pina by unanimous decision on December 15, 1961 and Carlos Hernandez by decision on October 19, 1961 in bantamweight title eliminators at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

It Makes Me Feel Good

The creative process involved Mackay flying out beforehand to Los Angeles where he scouted for suitable song material and session musicians.

Jacques Kemp

Kemp was involved in setting up the Los Angeles office in 1982, and from 1984 to 1990 he was the General Manager in Brazil.

Jerry Vlasak

Vlasak was convicted in Los Angeles in 2006 of "targeted protesting" for demonstrating against euthanasia at animal shelters outside the home of a Department of Animal Services employee.

Jesse Kellerman

Kellerman was born in Los Angeles, California, the oldest son of the bestselling mystery novelists Faye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman.

Jiangshan High School

On July 6, 2013, 29 students and 5 teachers from Jiangshan High School were on board Asiana Flight 214, traveling to a summer camp at West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles, when the aircraft crashed at San Francisco International Airport.

John Randolph Haynes

In 1887, the family removed to Los Angeles where he became one of the city's busiest physicians.

Karen Dunnell

Born Karen Williamson in Los Angeles, USA, she moved to Britain when she was a young child and was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls and Bedford College, London.

Katy Garretson

She has also taught classes on sitcom directing at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Kiryat Malakhi

The name was chosen to honor the Jewish community of Los Angeles, which contributed much of the funding for its establishment.

Late night television in the United States

Television networks typically produce two late night shows: one taped in New York City and one in Los Angeles.

Leo Zelada

He passed the Andes, the Amazons, the Darien, the Caribbeans and Chiapas, and finally he arrived to Los Angeles, United States of America.

Los Angeles Port Police Association

The purpose of the Association is to represent its active members in employment relations and matters of working conditions with the City of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.

In 1977, the city of Los Angeles conducted a study regarding the effects of high concentrations of adult stores.

Lovaas model

The Lovaas model is a form of Early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) developed by psychology professor Dr. Ivar Lovaas at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

LSU School of Music

The LSU A Cappella Choir was the featured university choral group at the finale concert for the ACDA Annual Convention at the Walt Disney Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Luigi Ballerini

Luigi Ballerini, born in Milan in 1940, currently living in New York and Los Angeles, is an Italian poet, professor of modern and contemporary Italian Literature at UCLA and a historian of gastronomy.

Manny Tolentino

Tolentino represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he was defeated in the first round by the United States' Eric Amend.

Marion Parker

Hickman took Marion from her school, Mount Vernon Junior High School in the Lafayette Square section of Los Angeles, by telling the registrar, Mary Holt, that Perry Parker had been seriously injured in an accident and wished to see his daughter.

Mercy Ministries

To date, Mercy Ministries has disclosed anticipated homes to be opened in Washington DC, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Florida, Vietnam, Peru and South Africa.

Method Studios

Method Studios is a visual effects company founded in 1998 and located in Los Angeles, California with facilities in Vancouver, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, London, Sydney and Melbourne.

Metro Pictures

After Mayer's departure, Rowland continued to produce a number of films in New York City, Fort Lee, New Jersey, and in Los Angeles.

Michele Fioroni

Fioroni represented his native country in the singles competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Mohamed Zaoui

Zaoui won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Moonlight Drive

According to the Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, Morrison wrote "Moonlight Ride" during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California in 1965.

My First Mister

In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer (Sobieski), a 17-year-old "goth-punk" girl, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris (Brooks), who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroom clerk.

Natalie Robinson Cole

For much of her career, Cole taught inner city children in the Los Angeles area.

Oscar J. Friend

Oscar Friend moved to Los Angeles at the request of Walt Disney Productions, and worked for some time as a scriptwriter for films at Universal Studios before returning to New York.

Pacific cod

A bottom dweller, it is found mainly along the continental shelf and upper slopes with a range around the rim of the North Pacific Ocean, from the Yellow Sea to the Bering Strait, along the Aleutian Islands, and south to about Los Angeles, down to the depths of 900 meters (~ 3000 feet).

Pakistan Recovery Fund

Various discreet sponsorship opportunities also exist in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Dubai/Abu Dhabi and in Pakistan itself.

Port Lincoln

Weightlifter Dean Lukin, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Super heavyweight division at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was a tuna fisherman who shot to fame as a weightlifter in the 1980s.

Ray Stark

On his death in 2004, Ray Stark was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Reseda

Reseda, Los Angeles, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California

Return to Base

It tells the tale of a near-death flying experience suffered by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea when travelling to Los Angeles.

Ringo, I Love You

"Ringo, I Love You" is a rock song performed by American singer-actress Cher released under the pseudonym Bonnie Jo Mason, the name she used at the start of her career when based in Los Angeles.

Russell Knipp

He was inducted in the USAW Hall of Fame and the Helms Amateur Athletes Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.

San Angeles

San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside.

Shabby chic

The term was coined by The World of Interiors magazine in the 1980s and became extremely popular in the US in the '90s with a certain eclectic surge of decorating styles with paints and effects, notably in metropolitan cultural centres on the West Coast of America, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, with heavy influences from Mediterranean cultures such as Provence, Tuscany and Greece.

Sigizmund Levanevsky

In early 1936 he flew back from Los Angeles, USA to Moscow, USSR covering 19,000 kilometers (over 11,800 miles) on his way.

Snak King

In 1982, Snak King moved from its original 1,200-square-foot facility in downtown Los Angeles to a 50,000-square-foot facility.

Solomon Rubinstein

Solomon Rubinstein (1868, Poland - 27 November 1931, Los Angeles, USA) was a Polish–American chess master.

Southern California Linux Expo

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is an annual Linux, open source and free software conference held in Los Angeles, California, since 2002.

Stone City, Iowa

One of the most recent uses of this limestone can be seen in the new Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Stun belt

It is also used during judicial hearings (e.g. in 1998, against Ronald Hawkins in Los Angeles, California for frequently interrupting Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani at a sentencing hearing).

Super Hornio Brothers

While noting that the films are considered to be the "holy grail" of pornographic parodies, The Cinema Snob ripped into both of them, noting the inconsistencies of the pornographic parodies, ranging from how characters were named and cast, ways that the films could better themselves using various Super Mario video game sound effects, to overt references to 1990s Los Angeles such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Symbolic Manipulation Program

It was first sold commercially in 1981 by the Computer Mathematics Corporation of Los Angeles which later became part of Inference Corporation; Inference Corp. further developed the program and marketed it commercially from 1983 to 1988.

The Hot Hits Live from LA

Every week Maude Garrett and Dave Styles talk to artists and celebs, and countdown the hottest 35 songs in LA, live from Los Angeles, California.

The Star Chamber

Judge Hardin (Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles jurist who gets frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of two men who are accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old boy.

The String Quartet Tribute to Elliott Smith

The cover art mimics that of Smith's 2000 album Figure 8, combined with photographs of the Elliott Smith memorial wall in Los Angeles, California.

The Way I Want to Touch You

In September 1973, Toni and Daryl were performing at The Smokehouse Restaurant in Encino, California and two men from a small F.M. station were in the audience one night.

Union des Français de l'Etranger

The Union des Français de l'Etranger (French Foreign Union), or UFE, is a French organization with branches in more than 100 countries around the world in major world cities including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. where there is a significant French or Francophone population.

United States v. Janis

United States v. Janis, (1976) was a Supreme Court Case that found Max Janis and Morris Levine guilty of illegal bookmaking activities in Los Angeles in a 5-3 ruling.

Viewbank, Victoria

In the 1980s Australian Aerial Freestyle Olympic Gold Medallist Alisa Camplin, Catherine Fitzsimmons (Pearsell model and founder of Dash Models, Los Angeles), Australian Olympic Runner Tamsyn Manou all attended Viewbank Primary School.

Western gray squirrel

Local rehabilitation experts recount the Eastern Fox Squirrels were released in urban regions of Los Angeles throughout the 20th Century.

When Christmas Comes

The music video for the song was filmed in Los Angeles in November 2011 and premiered on December 11, 2011 in the TV Show "A Very BET Christmas special".

When the Music's Over

"When the Music's Over" was a staple of The Doors' live shows in 1966, when they were the house band at the Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.

When You Were My Girl

The video was directed by Nick Spanos and was shot in Los Angeles, United States.

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia

This chapter starts with a rumor that University of California, Los Angeles is holding Hitler's brain in their basement and keeping it alive.

You Wanted More

"You Wanted More" is a 1999 song by the Los Angeles band Tonic that originally appeared in the 1999 film, American Pie.


2009 Emerald Bowl

USC had won both games in the series, a 23–17 victory in Los Angeles in 1987 and a 34–7 win in Chestnut Hill in 1988.

Alfred McCune Home

Prior to moving to Los Angeles, they donated it to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the intent that it be used as an official residence for President Heber J. Grant.

Ali Riley

Born in Los Angeles, California to parents John Graham Riley and Beverly Fong Lowe, Ali attended Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, California.

Alice Van-Springsteen

She had performed during the opening ceremony at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

American Choreography Awards

These include places such as the Orpheum Theatre, El Capitan Theatre, Alex Theatre, Wilshire Ebell Theatre, The Hollywood Palace, The Museum of Flying, The Century Club, and Club Tatou.

American Country Countdown

In 1974 when the show was up and running, Bustany tapped Bob Kingsley, who had been program director at country station KLAC-Los Angeles, to be ACC's producer.

Amerikana

When philosophy student Peter (Goorjian) is abandoned by his Danish girlfriend in Los Angeles, his friend Chris (Duval) invites him to South Dakota to claim a Harley Davidson he has inherited from an uncle.

Anthony Brancato

Arriving in Los Angeles during the early stages of the feud between Los Angeles crime family boss Jack Dragna and Mickey Cohen, Brancato was immediately able to find freelance work.

Calum Best

In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen traveling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.

Chutes Park

The site also included, at various times, such exotic diversions as a seal pond, ostriches and the interestingly named House of Trouble and Cave of the Winds.

Courage of the West

Lewis was told that the Screen Actors Guild did not have jurisdiction at this distance from Los Angeles, although its members would have to be paid the standard rates agreed with the Guild.

David Hoffman

Other feature films include: Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends, starring Scruggs with Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, and The Byrds; Sing Sing Thanksgiving, a concert feature film at Sing Sing Prison in New York with B.B. King, Joan Baez and others; and It’s All Good, a film chronicling the lives of two aggressive inline skating teams in New York City and Los Angeles.

David Secter

He released the low-budget sex comedy Getting Together (also titled Feelin' Up in some releases) in 1976, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Echo, Oregon

On 22 December 1927, William Edward Hickman, the murderer of Marion Parker in Los Angeles on 17 December, was arrested by police near the town.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

George Molchan

Molchan was hired and was based in Chicago; the other additional Wienermobiles were based in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Madison, Wisconsin, the company's home.

Harald Schmid

Schmid won bronze with the 4x400 m relay team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as well as an individual bronze in 400 m hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

Institute For Figuring

Since its founding in 2003 by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim the IFF has staged public lectures in Los Angeles and New York on subjects such as tiling patterns, hyperbolic space, early computational devices, and tensegrity structures.

Jewish Life Television

Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish life is facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York City and Toronto as well as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Miami, London and Moscow.

John C. Goss

John C. Goss (born October 21, 1958, in Landstuhl, Germany) is an American artist and author and has lived most of his life in the Asia/Pacific region (Hawaii, Los Angeles, Bangkok).

Jonathan Thulin

In January, 2010, Thulin and his wife Anna moved to Los Angeles and began attending The Dream Center, which is where he met worship leader and producer Dave Hanley.

Larry Wall

Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.

Mando Fresko

Currently, he can be heard on the nation’s biggest hip-hop station, Power 106 FM (105.9) Los Angeles.

Michael Allsup

He played in numerous local bands before relocating to Los Angeles in 1968, where he met a trio of vocalists (Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells), who had a recording contract with Dunhill Records and were looking for backing musicians.

Mike Vejar

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar (born June 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television director, with directing credits on the four most recent Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah.

Nate Perry

He grew up in Northern California and has been based in Los Angeles since 1999 where he has performed, toured and recorded with several artists including CSS, Manic, Middle Class Rut, Jesse Spencer of the Fox show House, Fractional Importance, Stars Align, Art of Chaos, and Toadies guitarist Darrel Herbert.

Operation Auca

Following graduation, he married Marilou Hobolth and enrolled in a one-year basic medical treatment program at the School of Missionary Medicine in Los Angeles.

Orlando Scandrick

He appeared in Bravo's Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Season 5 Episode 12 in which he enlisted the services of Josh Altman in purchasing a home in Los Angeles.

Patrick Arena

The Cougars transferred to the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 1952 and left Victoria for Los Angeles in 1961.

Paul Bindrim

Paul Bindrim (born 14 August 1920, New York - died 17 December 1997, Los Angeles) was an American psychotherapist who is known as the founder of nude psychotherapy which he believed allowed people to access and express repressed feelings more easily.

Richard Burmer

After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank.

Robert Verdi

Additionally, Robert is a stylist for Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, and has designed two of her Los Angeles, California homes.

Ryan Kahn

As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.

Savannah Robinson

Following that, she appeared on local television on the Los Angeles KTTV show Good Day L.A..

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 29, 1947, opening simultaneously in two theatres across the street from each other in Westwood.

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four gold thieves, led by foreign-accented scientist-mastermind Farwell (Oscar Beregi, Jr.), hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California.

Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball

Jeff Turner- won the gold medal in men's basketball as a member of Team USA at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Vedanta Society of Southern California

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

Viveka Davis

Discovered at age 11, by Alan Parker in an inner city school in south central Los Angeles, her career spanning 25 years so far has showcased her dynamic talents for drama, comedy, music and dance, won her praise and got the attention of many of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.