Today Los Angeles is a city of millions, but its oldest streets still trace four square leagues laid out around a plaza in 1781. Our Los Angeles designs gather that founding story — the City of Angels, the 1781 pueblo, and Los Pobladores — and pair it with vintage Southern California styling: sunshine, palms, mountains meeting the coast. From a 1781 adobe pueblo to the City of Angels — wear a little of Los Angeles's real beginning, not its billboard.
Our Los Angeles retro logo carries California's grizzly bear and lone star — the emblem of the old California Republic — set over "1850," the year of statehood. Rendered black-and-white with the worn look of a vintage crate label or a roadside sign, it is rugged and authentic rather than glossy. The bear and star bridge the city's two stories: the adobe pueblo on the river and the state it helped build, a fitting mark for heritage worn rather than hung on a wall.
Why People Visit Los Angeles California
- Walk Olvera Street and the Old Plaza at El Pueblo de Los Angeles, the founding site and oldest section of the city.
- Step inside the Plaza Church — Our Lady Queen of the Angels, "La Placita" — and see the Avila Adobe (1818), the city's oldest standing house.
- Find the 1781 founders monument at the Plaza, which names all 44 pobladores by name, age, and origin.
- Trace the Los Angeles River, the Porciúncula the settlers built beside.
- Look up at the Santa Monica and San Gabriel ranges that ring the coastal plain — the mountains-meet-coast view that defines Southern California.
