Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember when Los Angeles had only one area code? Of course you don't. The area's relentless growth forced regulators to split the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A July 19, 1984, Los Angeles Times article about area codes contained a map of the two — count them, two — area codes for Los ...

Los Angeles already has more area codes than any other city in the nation, and now, state utility regulators have approved the county’s 11th. The new area code, 738, will overlay existing area codes ...

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