Los Angeles has hosted the summer Olympics Games twice, once in 1932 and again in 1984. Both games were profitable for the city, with the 1984 games being the most profitable Olympics in history. The city is currently vying to host the games again in 2016.

Settle in to your affordable San Fernando Valley home and venture out on a surreptitious film location tour! A bit of Interenet research will divulge the locations of such iconic movie spots as the Sherman Oaks Galleria, featured in the films Fast Times as Ridgemont High, whose characters worked there, and Valley Girl, with Nicolas Cage.