Author: Sunset Club, Los AngelesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Annals of the Sunset Club of Los Angeles
Author: Sunset Club, Los AngelesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Material Dreams
Author: Kevin StarrPublisher: Americans and the California D
ISBN: 0195044878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream. In Material Dreams, he turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920's, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles.
Why I Am what I Am
Author: A Connected Metropolis
Author: Maxwell JohnsonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623667X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city’s connections to the outside world. By focusing on specific moments in the city’s development when tensions over Los Angeles’s connections, or lack thereof, emerged, Johnson ties each movement to two or three contemporary figures who influenced the debates at hand. The elites’ previous efforts to secure nationwide and global connections for Los Angeles were wildly successful following World War II. As a result, the city became a landing spot for African American migrants, Cambodian and Laotian refugees, and Mexican and Central American immigrants. Johnson argues that the city’s history is more defined by external relationships than previously understood, and those relationships have given the history of the city more continuity than originally recognized. At the turn of the twentieth century, the politics of connection revolved around initiatives to tie Los Angeles to other places both tangibly and metaphorically. Elites built tangible connections to secure, among other things, the water that irrigated the citrus farms of Los Angeles, the capital that propelled its businesses, and the people who migrated from the Midwest to buy its houses. To build metaphorical connections that located the city amid transcontinental and trans-Pacific movements, elites themselves often transcended nearby borders and pursued connections at will. Los Angeles stood as a focal point for elite ambitions, a place with a more ambivalent relationship to external connections. The true story of Los Angeles’s rise lies in the spectacular visions and rambunctious activism of a group of elite men dedicated to transforming a remote frontier town into a global metropolis.
The Land of Sunshine
Author: Dancing at Ciro's
Author: Sheila WellerPublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250097827
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Poignant memoir of a not-so-typical New York Jewish family’s experiences in the midcentury Hollywood demimonde ... Equal parts emotional tissue-party and shrewd cultural history." - Kirkus Reviews In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father. In Dancing at Ciro's, Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's life contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's forties and fifties. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings--and breakdowns--at Ciro's, Weller casts a keen eye on her own family's turmoil and loss.
The Land of Sunshine
Author: Charles Fletcher LummisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Land of Sunshine
Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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Women Behind Bars
Author: Tom EyenPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573618130
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"In this hilarious satire on B-movies of the 1950's, Mary Eleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman's House of Detention, presided over by a massive matron with a taste for sadism and female flesh as our heroine, now Caged in the Big House, learns about life The Hard Way." -- Publisher's description
Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea
Author: John Steven McGroartyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description