Growing up in the east San Gabriel Valley in the '60s, all the kids of my generation (including the Hispanics) pronounced it "loss-SAN-juh-luss' (loss as in toss, juh as in duh, luss as in plus). Often, the syllables were run together so it sounded more like a single, four-syllable word, rather than two words.
As a side note, I have postcards from the first decade of the 20th century where the writers refer to the city as simply "Los."
-Scott
Last edited by Los Angeles Past; Jun 13, 2012 at 5:54 AM.
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