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===1970s===
===1970s===
Elected to an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of Los Angeles in 1989, Tom Bradley (1917-1998) was mayor for 20 years, 1973-1993, with an electoral base among blacks, Jews, Hollywood, liberals, Latinos, and big corporations. Bradley lost to conservative Democrat [[Sam Yorty]] in 1969, but unseated Yorty in 1973. Bradley enjoyed high popularity in spite of his failure to redress the problems of gang warfare, drug abuse, poor housing, unemployment, and poor schools. His success came from his skillful low-key organizing tactics and his high-profile use of symbolic politics. The latter has allowed well-organized groups to maintain control of city government and make the mayor their pawn.<ref>John M. Allswang, "Tom Bradley of Los Angeles". ''Southern California Quarterly'' 1992 74(1): 55-105; James A. Regalado, "Organized Labor and Los Angeles City Politics: An Assessment in the Bradley Years, 1973-1989" ''Urban Affairs Quarterly'' 1991 27(1): 87-108. 0042-0816; Byran Jackson, "Black Political Power in the City of Angels: An Analysis of Mayor Tom Bradley's Electoral Success," ''National Political Science Review'' 1990 2: 169-175. 0896-629x</ref>
Elected to an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of Los Angeles in 1989, Tom Bradley (1917-1998) was mayor for 20 years, 1973-1993, with an electoral base among blacks, Jews, Hollywood, liberals, Latinos, and big corporations. Bradley lost to conservative Democrat [[Sam Yorty]] in 1969, but unseated Yorty in 1973. Bradley enjoyed high popularity in spite of his failure to redress the problems of gang warfare, drug abuse, poor housing, unemployment, and poor schools. His success came from his skillful low-key organizing tactics and his high-profile use of symbolic politics. The latter has allowed well-organized groups to maintain control of city government and make the mayor their pawn.<ref>John M. Allswang, "Tom Bradley of Los Angeles". ''Southern California Quarterly'' 1992 74(1): 55-105; James A. Regalado, "Organized Labor and Los Angeles City Politics: An Assessment in the Bradley Years, 1973-1989" ''Urban Affairs Quarterly'' 1991 27(1): 87-108. 0042-0816; Byran Jackson, "Black Political Power in the City of Angels: An Analysis of Mayor Tom Bradley's Electoral Success," ''National Political Science Review'' 1990 2: 169-175. 0896-629x</ref>
===1980===
The 1980s saw Los Angeles' bicentennial (200th) anniversary in 1981 but also that year as the first U.S. city where symptoms of what would a year
later known as AIDS symptoms where reported from, making Los Angeles one of the top three highest reporting cities for it, after New York's
first and San Francisco's second; now Los Angeles is second in AIDS cases after New York City with San Francisco as third. Many heavy metal and New Wave rock bands who were popular in the 1980's were formed in Los Angeles during that decade as well.
===Riots and crime===
===Riots and crime===