Author: California Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Officers, Members, By-laws and House Rules of the California Club of Los Angeles
Author: California Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Officers, Members, By-laws and House Rules of the California Club of Los Angeles
Author: California Club of Los AngelesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Officers, Members, Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and House Rules of the California Club of Los Angeles
Author: California Club (Los Angeles)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
California Club, Los Angeles, California
Author: California Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
By-laws, House Rules & List of Officers and Members of the University Club
Author: University Club, San FranciscoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
By-laws and List of Officers and Members of the California Club
Author: California Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Officers, Members, Articles of Incorporation, By-laws and House Rules
Author: California Club of Los AngelesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Material Dreams
Author: Kevin StarrPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019507260X
Category : California, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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.
By-laws, House Rules and List of Officers and Members of the University Club of San Francisco
Author: University Club of San FranciscoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
By-laws, House Rules, Officers and Members of the San Francisco Commercial Club
Author: San Francisco Commercial ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Organized 1851 as San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, re-organized 1887 as San Francisco Merchants Club, incorporated 1910 as San Francisco Commercial Club.