Los Angeles, CA: City of Angels Women's Tri-Blend Tee

Part of Our Route 66 Everytown Collection | Los Angeles Edition

Los Angeles, California: City of Angels

Los Angeles began in 1781 as a Spanish pueblo named for the Queen of the Angels, and its nickname, the City of Angels, still rides old Route 66 down Sunset and Santa Monica boulevards to the Pacific in California.

Coast into the City of Angels, where Route 66 first ended at 7th and Broadway before it reached the sea, in a soft women's tri-blend tee made for Mother Road fans.

Part of the Route 66 Everytown Collection: one tee for every town that ever called the road home. Start with Los Angeles, then collect the entire route.

T-Shirt Details & Features

• Next Level 6710 women's tri-blend tee with a slim, feminine fit (see size chart in product image gallery)
• 50% polyester, 25% combed ring-spun cotton, 25% rayon for a soft, lightweight drape
• Crew neck with a tear-away label for comfort
• Available in sizes S–2XL
• Printed in the USA
• Free U.S. shipping on orders of $25 or more, applied automatically!

About Los Angeles: Pueblo, Name and the Original End of the Road

Grokipedia says Spanish colonists under Governor Felipe de Neve founded the pueblo on September 4, 1781, and that the nickname City of Angels comes directly from the Spanish name, which honors the Virgin Mary as Queen of the Angels. Wikipedia counts 44 settlers known as Los Pobladores, notes that Gaspar de Portolà and Juan Crespí reached the site on August 2, 1769, and says sources disagree on the exact original name. The settlement's birthplace is preserved today as El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, and Wikipedia gives the city 3,898,747 residents in the 2020 census.

Wikipedia's Route 66 in California article says the original western end of Route 66 sat downtown at 7th Street and Broadway, and extended the route to Santa Monica at Lincoln and Olympic boulevards in 1935 or 1936 depending on the source. The Los Angeles Route 66 guide describes the 1936 alignment as running from Broadway along Cesar E. Chavez Avenue onto Sunset Boulevard, then out Santa Monica Boulevard to the coast, until the Hollywood Freeway took over part of the route in 1953.

Toward Pasadena the route followed Figueroa Street until the Arroyo Seco Parkway opened in 1940. The National Park Service calls it the first freeway in the West and the first stretch of Route 66 on a modern limited-access highway. The guide says Route 66 was decommissioned in Los Angeles in 1964.

Keep rolling along Route 66 with our women's tees for South Pasadena and Pomona to the east, or our unisex tees for Pasadena to the east and West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica to the west. Prefer a classic fit? Shop our unisex Los Angeles tee.

Care Instructions

• Machine wash: cold (max 86°F / 30°C)
• Tumble dry: low heat
• Non-chlorine bleach as needed
• Iron: low heat
• Do NOT dry clean

Bring a piece of Los Angeles home. Carry a piece of the Mother Road's history. Add this tee to your cart, then explore every California town on Route 66.