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====Los Angeles Grows Rapidly====
[[File:Junction_at_Main_Street.jpg|Thumbnail|left|300px|The Junction of Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917]]
In 1890, Los Angeles had only 11,000 citizens and was the 187th largest city in the United States. But by 1930, it had grown to 1.2 million people in Los Angeles (2.3 million in the metropolitan area) and was the largest city in the West.<ref> Robert Fogelson. <i>Bourgeois Nightmare: Suburbia, 1870-1930</i>, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), 147. </ref> While Los Angeles lacked water, capital, coal, and a port in 1890 by 1930 it had “an artificial river tapped from the Sierras, a federally subsidized harbor, an oil bonanza, and block after block of skyscrapers under construction.”<ref> Mike Davis, <i>City of Quartz</i>, (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), 24-25.</ref> During this time, Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the United States, and much of this growth occurred between 1920 and 1930.
