Los Angeles, California Area
The minor league teams had been known as the Los Angeles Angels since the founding of the Pacific Coast League in 1903, named after the city itself. That team name contained a built-in redundancy if fully translated into English: "The The Angels Angels".
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Famous quotes containing the words los angeles,, los, california and/or area:
“Just because you live in LA it doesn’t mean you have to dress that way.”
—Advertising billboard campaign in Los Angeles, mounted by New York fashion house Charivari.
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—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Robert Musil (1880–1942)