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🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In a short, special one-off episode of "One Thing to do in L.A. this Week," we take you to the site of what the L.A. Times called The Most Important Event in California History: Campo de Cahuenga, directly across the street from Universal Studios, which marks the spot that ended the fighting of the Mexican-American War! This is the spot that enabled California to become part of the United States, and it's right in our backyard. THIS is what you're going to do in L.A. this week.
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0:00.0 | Yo, what is up and this is another bonus episode of In A Minute with Evan Love |
0:05.7 | it and you know why we're here. I have your one thing to do in LA this week and |
0:10.2 | let me tell you this one is super freaking important. |
0:14.0 | Listen to this. The most important event in the history of California |
0:20.0 | happened right across the street from what is now Universal Studios. |
0:24.0 | I'm serious. |
0:25.3 | Now, technically it's Studio City, |
0:27.9 | but it's right there on Lancashim |
0:29.4 | and literally you can throw a rock and hit Universal Studios. |
0:33.8 | But there's an Adobe Ranch House |
0:36.3 | that you may not have noticed. |
0:37.5 | I've been by there hundreds of times |
0:40.0 | and you don't really see it from the street. |
0:42.0 | And you obviously don't know it because |
0:43.2 | universal studio is a big thing and it's called Campo de Coanga. |
0:48.4 | Now why is this important? Because it's where General Andres Pico of the Mexican Army |
0:54.7 | and Lieutenant Colonel John Fremont of the United States Army signed the Treaty of |
1:00.8 | Coanga on January 13th, 1847. And let me repeat this. The LA Times called |
1:08.0 | this signing the most important event in the history of the state of California. |
1:14.0 | Why? Well, the treaty ended the fighting of the Mexican-American War within Alta California, |
1:21.0 | which is modern day California. |
1:23.6 | And listen, I didn't realize how much of the Mexican-American war |
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