The City of Los Angeles hosts the Summer Olympic Games for the second time. The message was the word “login”, but the system crashed after the first two letters, making the literal first message “lo.” The first message on the ARPANET is sent. While this was a false alarm, it’s true that during WWII Los Angeles was a major center for manufacturing ships and aircrafts. Reports of an air raid send the city into a panic as a blackout is ordered by the military so they can fire into the sky. to South Pasadena, it represents a transitional phase between early parkways and modern freeways. The Arroyo Seco Parkway becomes the first freeway in the Western United States. These Games saw many firsts, including the first Olympic Village and the first time the victory podium was used. The city hosts the Summer Olympics during the Great Depression.
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