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Originally Posted by 2Easy
If he meant every year for the last 100 years, then you're probably right.
We know what the populations were, but that doesn't always match renown. St. Louis was probably much more well known than Cleveland despite similar populations. Were SF, DC, and Boston similarly well known at the time? I have no idea.
And when did LA pass Chicago in renown? I'd guess that Chicago was ahead until at least the 60's. Was Detroit in the top 3 in the 50's and 60's and LA 4th?
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There is plenty you can research online. The TIMEFRAME of which cities surpassed which one in which year is a easy research.
Chicago was originally the Capitol of the Silent Film era and rented film market.
- the greatest number of production companies and filmmakers were in Chicago.
- leading in film distribution market in the entire US with control of 80% of the market early 1900s.
- by 1907, Chicago had more theaters per capita than any other city and had more than 15 film exchange houses.
You can research why and how Chicago and rest in NYC on how these cities lost out to the migration WEST of the Large studios etc. Sunny year-round no winter weather for primitive cameras were certainly a factor.
Chicago always had a storied history. From its super-fast growth then its Great Fire of 1871 and a new even faster growth spurt that for a bit had it billed as the Fastest growing city in the world and COMPETING with NYC in size till NYC merged with the Boroughs. Its Al Capone Era still part of Pop Culture tourist want to learn of and see and its Urban Blues legacy long popularity in music and city's contributions to popularity of Jazz, Food associated with it and how it can surpass visitors expectations that is the norm rather then not vs sometimes cities that are considered well above it......
LA surpassed Chicago in Population in 1984.
There was no surprise and current gap in the metro is.
Los Angeles - 12,447,000
Chicago ------- 8,865,000
Today, both cities and states have their issues and both cities are hard pressed to have a growing metro again. COL by high cost as a huge LA factor and for Chicago increasingly by taxes and WINTERS people hate to Midwest non-coastal location. You hear all the reasons also on C-D in threads over the years. .
ON WHEN DID LA PASS CHICAGO ONE RENOWN.... Must rest on HOLLYWOOD. The US is known in the world with Pop Culture that Hollywood/TV play a huge roll and not just recently. CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' has lessened much. Perhaps not so much in the world. Again, Sun and the Cali-mystic to the negatives of COL, Wildfire dangers and always the earthquake danger.... does not help even once fast growing LA today.
JUST AS LA is not going to DROP OFF THE MAP if it continues to LOOSE POPULATION. Neither will Chicago. The LEGACY LIVES ON. Both have NOTORIETY and VISITORS TO PROVE IF THEY GOT IT YET. Booming cores that hopefully fully recover from this awful year.
What Chicago has in Pop Culture LEGACY it did not loose. Its stereotypes from Al Capone's era and evolution of the skyscraper and architecture, plus a big shot in film production again in Chicago in the 1980s and again this century. Does not mean it somehow LOST EVERYTHING. IT CERTAINLY LOST WHAT IT HAD THAT BECAME HOLLYWOOD the hightailed it WEST a looooong time ago and that still is a HUGE LA PERSONA to this day for RECOGNITION HERE AND ABROAD EXPECIALLY.
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