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Posted Jul 25, 2021, 4:05 AM
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Join Date: May 2019
Location: Los Angeles
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SFBruin
I don't entirely know the history, but it is entirely possible that STL was a larger and more prestigious metro than was LA in 1920.
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According to this list from SkyscraperCity (sorry, I'm too lazy to compile a list like this from original sources tonight between cocktails), metropolitan St. Louis was more populous in 1920 than was metropolitan Los Angeles. And, because it was more established, I can buy that it was presumably more prestigious as well. According to the same source, however, metro LA had about a million more people than did Metro St. Louis by 1930.
Again, the following is is from SkyscraperCity as linked above, and if you don't like it, take it up with the guy who made it. I'm posting it because I don't have a better source.
Metropolitan Areas -- 1920
1.New York -- 8,490,694
2.Chicago -- 3,521,789
3.Philadelphia -- 2,714,271
4.Boston -- 2,315,111
5.Pittsburgh -- 1,759,989
6.Detroit -- 1,305,798
7.St. Louis -- 1,139,877
8.San Francisco -- 1,009,467
9.Los Angeles -- 997,830
10.Cleveland -- 972,162
11.Baltimore -- 852,051
12.Buffalo -- 753,393
13.Minneapolis -- 704,566
14.Cincinnati -- 628,999
15.Washington -- 571,882
16.Milwaukee -- 539,449
17.Providence -- 536,572
18.Kansas City -- 528,833
19.Worcester -- 455,135
20.New Haven -- 415,214
21.New Orleans -- 413,750
22.Albany -- 408,598
23.Wilkes-Barre -- 390,991
24.Seattle -- 389,273
25.Portland -- 372,777
26.Springfield -- 369,904
27.Youngstown -- 364,018
28.New Bedford -- 359,005
29.Rochester -- 352,034
30.Indianapolis -- 348,061
31.Allentown -- 346,664
32.Louisville -- 346,411
33.Hartford -- 336,027
34.Bridgeport -- 320,936
35.Birmingham -- 310,054
36.Atlanta -- 307,094
37.Wheeling -- 303,848
38.Denver -- 299,087
39.Scranton -- 286,311
40.Akron -- 286,065
41.Columbus -- 283,951
42.Johnstown -- 279,951
43.Toledo -- 275,721
44.Omaha -- 275,444
45.Duluth -- 256,162
46.Utica -- 247,795
47.Syracuse -- 241,465
48.Norfolk -- 241,148
49.Dayton -- 240,753
50.Memphis -- 223,216
51.Harrisburg -- 211,694
52.Richmond -- 211,135
53.Dallas -- 210,551
54.San Antonio -- 202,096
55.Reading -- 200,854
56.Houston -- 186,667
57.Wilmington -- 184,811
58.Grand Rapids -- 183,041
59.Charleston -- 180,027
60.Canton -- 177,218
61.Lancaster -- 173,797
62.Nashville -- 167,815
63.Davenport -- 166,249
64.Huntington -- 160,580
65.Knoxville -- 160,024
66.Trenton -- 159,881
67.Salt Lake City -- 159,282
68.Brockton -- 156,968
69.Des Moines -- 154,029
70.Erie -- 153,536
71.Fort Worth -- 152,800
72.Peoria -- 150,250
73.York -- 144,521
74.Tacoma -- 144,127
75.Spokane -- 141,289
76.Chattanooga -- 139,324
77.Manchester -- 135,512
78.Fresno -- 128,779
79.Altoona -- 128,334
80.Flint -- 125,668
81.Portland -- 124,376
82.Honolulu -- 123,496
83.Tampa -- 116,522
84.Oklahoma City -- 116,307
85.Fort Wayne -- 114,303
86.Binghamton -- 113,610
87.Jacksonville -- 113,540
88.Pittsfield -- 113,033
89.San Diego -- 112,248
90.Little Rock -- 109,464
91.Augusta -- 109,266
92.Tulsa -- 109,023
93.Charleston -- 108,450
94.South Bend -- 103,304
95.El Paso -- 101,877
96.San Jose -- 100,676
97.Saginaw -- 100,286
98.Springfield -- 100,262
99.Terre Haute -- 100,212
100.Mobile -- 100,117
101.Savannah -- 100,032
UNITED STATES -- 106,021,537
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