ANGELS CITY

Founded by German settlers in 1857 and incorporated on February 10, 1870, Anaheim developed into an industrial center, producing electronics, aircraft parts, and canned fruit. It is the site of Disneyland, a theme park which opened in 1955. Its name is a blend of "Ana", after the nearby Santa Ana River, and "heim", from the German for "home". Previously, the settlement was known as Campo Aleman (Spanish for German Camp). The city of Anaheim has the following professional Sports franchises; Anaheim Angels, Major League Baseball, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, National Hockey League, Anaheim Storm, National Lacrosse League, and the Los Angeles Rams played in Anaheim from 1979-1994 before moving to their current home of Saint Louis. Anaheim is a city in Orange County, south-west California, a part of the greater Los Angeles conurbation to the east of Long Beach. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 328,014. It is a focus city of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The coast of California was an inviting pathway even for the earliest visitors to North America. The remains of Arlington Springs Woman on Santa Rosa Island, dated to the the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago, are among the traces of a very early inhabitation. When the first European explorers and settlers appeared, they found many Native American tribes living in the pristine land of oak woodlands, grassy hills, and broad beaches — in what is now California. Among the tribes were the Ohlone, Miwok, Modoc, Mohave, Chumash, and Maidu. California holds a variety of unique biosystems and each tribe specialized according to the particular environment. Coastal tribes were a major source of trading beads (wampum), which were produced from mussel shells using stone tools, while those in the northern Cascade Range traded obsidian, used for arrowheads, axe heads, and knives. Tribes in the Sierra Nevada foothills collected acorns from oak trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic tannin to make the flour edible. The first decades of the twentieth century saw the rise of the studio system founded by industrious Polish Jews seeking a life in the land of opportunity. MGM, Universal and Warner Brothers all acquired land in Hollywood, which was then a small subdivision known as "Hollywood land" on the outskirts of Los Angeles. On October 7, 2003, Davis was successfully recalled, with 55.4% of the voters supporting the recall . Having a plurality of 48.6% of the vote, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was chosen as the new governor. Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante received 31.5% of the vote, and Republican State Senator Tom McClintock received 13.5% of the vote. California is known as the Golden State and for more than a century people have envisioned it as promising a life in paradise and prosperity. The Great Seal of the State of California depicts the Goddess Minerva gazing over an idyll of mountains, oak trees and the mighty sea below and gold.