Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of AngelsLos Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. It is also a compact coffee table book of dazzling monochrome photography. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A.’s past and continue to shape its future. |
Contents
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The Radio Movies | 77 |
The Arts | 103 |
The Business of Pleasure | 134 |
THE NORTHw EST SECTION | 176 |
ix | 187 |
BEVERLY HILLs | 197 |
ToUR 1A South Pasadena Pasadena Flintridge La Canada | 295 |
ToUR 1B AzusaAngeles National ForestPine FlatsCrystal Lake | 301 |
Los AngelesAlhambra El Monte Puente Pomona | 321 |
67 | 331 |
Los Angeles Belvedere Montebello Whittier Ful | 339 |
Los AngelesCulver CityVeniceRedondoWilmington | 351 |
73 | 365 |
TOUR 5A WilmingtonSanta Catalina Island By Boat | 367 |
GLENDALE | 211 |
SAN PEDRO AND WILMINGTON | 227 |
LoNG BEACH AND SIGNAL HILL | 238 |
PASADENA | 254 |
SANTA Monica | 265 |
24 | 267 |
Los AngelesSan MarinoArcadiaMonroviaAzusa | 277 |
61 | 282 |
Los Angeles Hollywood Sherman Oaks Tarzana | 379 |
Los Angeles Burbank San Fernando Palmdale | 387 |
CHRONoLogY | 405 |
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