Los Angeles A Guide To The City And Its Environs
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Los Angeles
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Author : Best Books on
language : en
Publisher: Best Books on
Release Date : 1941
Los Angeles written by Best Books on and has been published by Best Books on this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration ; introduction by David Kipen.
Los Angeles
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Author : Writers' Program (U.S.). California
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Los Angeles written by Writers' Program (U.S.). California and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Los Angeles (Calif.) categories.
Los Angeles A Guide To The City And Its Environs
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Author : Writers' Program California
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Los Angeles A Guide To The City And Its Environs written by Writers' Program California and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
Originally published in 1939, this guidebook to Los Angeles offers a fascinating snapshot of the city during a time of rapid growth and change. The book provides detailed descriptions of major landmarks, neighborhoods, and attractions, as well as insights into the social and cultural life of the city. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Los Angeles and the development of American cities. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Los Angeles A Guide To The City And Its Environs Compiled By Workers Of The Writers Program Of The Work Projects Administration In Southern California
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Author : Writers' Program
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-03-02
Los Angeles A Guide To The City And Its Environs Compiled By Workers Of The Writers Program Of The Work Projects Administration In Southern California written by Writers' Program and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-02 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Los Angeles A Guide To The City And Its Environs Compiled By Workers Of The Writers Program Of The Work Projects Administration In Southern California
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Author : Writers' Program
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-10
Los Angeles A Guide To The City And Its Environs Compiled By Workers Of The Writers Program Of The Work Projects Administration In Southern California written by Writers' Program and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Los Angeles
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Author : WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Los Angeles written by WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Los Angeles (Calif.) categories.
Los Angeles In The 1930s
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Author : WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-04-05
Los Angeles In The 1930s written by WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-05 with History categories.
Previously published: New York: Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles: a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.
Manufacturing Suburbs
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Author : Robert Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2008
Manufacturing Suburbs written by Robert Lewis and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science categories.
Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban history, "Manufacturing Suburbs" reclaims the history of working-class suburbs by examining the development of industrial suburbs in the United States and Canada between 1850 and 1950. Contributors demonstrate that these suburbs developed in large part because of the location of manufacturing beyond city limits and the subsequent building of housing for the workers who labored within those factories. Through case studies of industrial suburbanization and industrial suburbs in several metropolitan areas (Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Montreal), "Manufacturing Suburbs" sheds light on a key phenomenon of metropolitan development before the Second World War.
Material Dreams
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1990
Material Dreams written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with California, Southern categories.
In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. Although he treats readers to intriguing side trips to Santa Barbara and Pasadena, Starr focuses here mainly on Los Angeles, revealing how this major city arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, propounded the importance of water in Southern California's future, and how such figures as the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles) and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil ("Yes it's oil, oil, oil / that makes LA boil," went the official drinking song of the Uplifters Club), the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture (such as the remarkably innovative Bradbury Building and its eccentric, neophyte designer, George Wyman), the impact of the automobile on city planning, the great antiquarian book collections, the Hollywood film community, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Kevin Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.
The Dream Endures
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-28
The Dream Endures written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-28 with History categories.
What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression--unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies--in Endangered Dreams, the fourth volume of his classic history of California. In The Dream Endures, Starr reveals the other side of the picture, examining the newly important places where the good life flourished, like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein went and changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. We read about the rich urban life of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in newly important communities like Carmel and San Simeon, the home of William Randolph Hearst, where, each Thursday afternoon, automobiles packed with Hollywood celebrities would arrive from Southern California for the long weekend at Hearst Castle. The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios. Starr offers an astute discussion of the European refugees who arrived in Hollywood during the period: prominent European film actors and artists and the creative refugees who were drawn to Hollywood and Southern California in these years--Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Man Ray, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and Franz Werfel. Starr gives a fascinating account of how many of them attempted to recreate their European world in California and how others, like Samuel Goldwyn, provided stories and dreams for their adopted nation. Starr reserves his greatest attention and most memorable writing for San Francisco. For Starr, despite the city's beauty and commercial importance, San Francisco's most important achievement was the sense of well-being it conferred on its citizens. It was a city that "magically belonged to everyone." Whether discussing photographers like Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, "hard-boiled fiction" writers, or the new breed of female star--Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and the improbable Mae West--The Dream Endures is a brilliant social and cultural history--in many ways the most far-reaching and important of Starr's California books.