R11 I actually do know the history of Los Angeles quite well. The first elite of American Los Angeles were from the Midwest, Methodists and Episcopalians from Indiana and Ohio. Prototype is Harrison Gray Otis from Ohio, who founded the Times, extremely conservative. The elite lived in Pasadena and West Adams (where the Doheny Mansion is and where USC would be built.) When the Red Car was built they moved out to Hancock Park, just developed.
Following the success of moving pictures, the Edison Company tried to enforce its patent. Motion picture production was centered in New Jersey, because, of course, that’s where Menlo Park is and theatre was close by in New York. In order to get away from the Edison Company, motion picture producers moved to the other side of America. These people were Jews. The prototype was Carl Laemmle, who in 1915 moved Universal Studios from Fort Lee to a chicken farm by the Cahuenga Pass. Warner (Wonsal), Fox (Fuchs), Zukor, Mayer, Goldwyn. All Jews.
They made an incredible amount of money. But they were not allowed to live in Hancock Park. So they had to live further west, on the outskirts. So they developed Beverly Hills and Bel Air. Cedars Sinai was built out on Beverly Boulevard. Their children were not allowed to go to USC. So they had to go to the public school, UCLA, in their neck of the woods.
And then you know what happened?
ASSIMILATION. Armand Hammer. Mark Taper. Eli Broad. Their names are plastered over all the city’s cultural institutions. (Oddly the Ahmansons are gentiles.) The prototype is Norton Simon, who amassed the most important collection of European painting on the West Coast which he denoted to the struggling Pasadena Museum of Art on the condition that the museum take HIS NAME. The bastion of priggish elite WASP Midwest intolerance would have the name of a Jew on its building on Colorado Boulevard that the Rose Parade passes in front of every year.
The University of Southern California established a Department of Cinematography in 1932 which became a Department of Cinema in 1940 and finally its own School in 1983, mirroring the path of postwar Jewish assimilation into the city’s elite. Its buildings are named for Ray Stark, Fanny Brice, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Sumner Redstone (Rothstein). The list of notable alumni of USC Film School is, conservatively, 50% Jewish. It is likely the most Jewish academic institution on the West Coast that does not study the Torah.
Do not question an Aspie about a special interest. You will not win.