In the Beginning (Major Modd list, region information) THE REGION PICTURES ARE UPDATED REGULARLY, SO YOU CAN CHECK THIS ENTRY FROM TIME TO TIME
Ok, first to sum up - this is not an actual recreation of the city itself, but a natural growth city on the territory of Los Angeles. In fact, in the end it may not have anything in common with the ral city, except the name and loation.
Secondly, this is almost a complete rip-off of CSGdesign's exceptional NATURAL GROWTH Journal, even down to the starting banner 
What can I say, some of us copy everything we see on the net.
And finally, this is my very first City Journal, so bear with me here.
With all that being said, let's move on to the custom content list
1.I'm using great map of Los Angeles Metro made by blade2k5 and Heblem. You can get it by clicking on the picture below
2.the NAM,combined with SAM, RHW, and Euro-textures (really, an essential for anyone playing the game)
3.Columbus Terrain Mod by CycleDogcombined with PEG's rock and water mods
4.BRF's Tunnel and Slope Mod
5.Radical Ordinance v2.0 by ralphaelninja
6.and a bunch of other BAT's - I will introduce them by the time they appear in the Journal
With all this being listed, let's move on to the satellite pictures
The area of Los Angeles remained undeveloped for many years nows, with only 3 major settlements in the whole area. They were peacful communities, living off by what they could grow, but around 1880's the Industrial Revolution reached even this remote western end of the States. The earliest written and photographed records of the Los Angeles are few years prior to the building of the railway, when the few heavy industry factories caused a population boom in all of the 3 towns in the area.
First, a shot of the administrative area of Los Angeles Metropolitan and the location of the 3 towns (recreation)
The biggest and most developed of all is the one in the middle, oddly named Chinatown (recreation)
Sadly, the pictures taken from the air at that time didn't have much contrast and quality (actual footage)
shot taken above the clouds
and the central part of Chinatown
The second major settlement in the area is the remote town of Eastside located....in the most western part of the administrative area. The resident of that time were living in the eatern part of a massive forset, terrorised by a ferousious pack of racoons and a wild bear constrictor, so they immortalized that in the name of their village
Eastside, in the early 1880s (recreation)
And a few more shots of the town itself (actual footage)
from afar
and not so far
The last of the "three big" is Malibu - located on the east but still not so remote as Eastside
The town (recreation)
and for the (actual footage)
from the clouds
sadly, the only picture of Malibu showing the entire town and farmland at that point of time is taken during the night, with lowered visibility, but still provides a valuable imformation for the development level.
and a closer shot
Malibu is the grain producer of the region, providing more than 60% of the whole grain gain in the 3 towns. This won her the right to have State Fair and a Farmers Market where farmers from all over gather around to gossip about new ways to fertilize the soil. Here is a shot of the Fair itself, taken from a hot-air baloon passing over it.
These were the only three clues about any human presence in the Los Angeles region. But as we follow their development, we will see how they grow or shrink in time.
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And as promised, region views:
year 1901
satellite view:
trafiic view:
year 1906
satellite:
traffic:
year 1910
satellite:
traffic:
year 1915
satellite:
traffic:
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