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Los Angeles Before the Freeways

Author : Arthur Hylen
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1626401330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Before the Freeways written by Arthur Hylen and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous photographs of lost Los Angeles, paired with historical and architectural insights. Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era 1850-1950 gives a lush, visual tour of a Los Angeles that no longer exists—one of elegant office buildings and stately mansions that were razed in the name of “progress” to build the city’s famous freeways. Featuring stunning black-and-white photography from Arnold Hylen that captures a lost era, the book contains an original essay by the photographer that provides historical background and context for the time period. This new edition contains additional, never-before-seen photographs from Hylen and newly unearthed information from historian Nathan Marsak on these lost architectural treasures.

Los Angeles Before the Freeways, 1850-1950

Author : Arnold Hylen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Before the Freeways, 1850-1950 written by Arnold Hylen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carmageddon, Beauty Queens, and the Hollywood Split: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles

Author : Paul Haddad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595801012
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Carmageddon, Beauty Queens, and the Hollywood Split: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles written by Paul Haddad and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmageddon, Beauty Queens, and the Hollywood Split: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles From the Arroyo Seco, which began construction during the Great Depression, to the Simi Valley and Century Freeways, which were completed in 1993, author Paul Haddad provides an entertaining and engaging history of the 527 miles of road that comprise the Los Angeles freeway system. Each of Los Angeles's twelve freeways receives its own chapter, and these are supplemented by "Off-Ramps"--sidebars that dish out pithy factoids about Botts' Dots, SigAlerts, and all matter of freeway lexicon, such as why Southern Californians are the only people in the country who place the word "the" in front of their interstates, as in "the 5," or "the 101." Carmageddon, Beauty Queens, and the Hollywood Split also explores those routes that never saw the light of day. Imagine superhighways burrowing through Laurel Canyon, tunneling under the Hollywood Sign, or spanning the waters of Santa Monica Bay. With a few more legislative strokes of the pen, you wouldn't have to imagine them--they'd already exist. Haddad notably gives voice to those individuals whose lives were inextricably connected--for better or worse--to the city's freeways: The hundreds of thousands of mostly minority and lower-class residents who protested against their displacement as a result of eminent domain. Women engineers who excelled in a man's field. Elected officials who helped further freeways . . . or stop them dead in their tracks. And he pays tribute to the corps of civic and state highway employees whose collective vision, expertise, and dedication created not just the most famous freeway network in the world, but feats of engineering that, at their best, achieve architectural poetry. Finally, let's not forget the beauty queens--no freeway in Los Angeles ever opened without their royal presence.

Material Dreams

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923272
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Material Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, 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. In a lively and eminently readable narrative, Starr reveals how Los Angeles 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, 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, 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 the impact of the automobile on city planning, the Hollywood film community, the L.A. literati, 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, Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.

Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242420
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles written by John Mack Faragher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, "a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles" (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this "groundbreaking" (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today.

Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles

Author : Charles P. Hobbs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852002
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles written by Charles P. Hobbs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.

The Fragmented Metropolis

Author : Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520082303
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Fragmented Metropolis written by Robert M. Fogelson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-06-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most detailed study ever published of Los Angeles' most critical period. . . . An invaluable aid to my understanding of this city."—David Brodsly, author of L.A. Freeway

Landscapes of Desire

Author : William Alexander McClung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234650
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Desire written by William Alexander McClung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An imaginative and provocative interpretation of the meaning of Los Angeles, carefully thought out and beautifully written."—Robert Winter, editor of Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California "McClung's sharp eye, and his ability to be both critic and analyst, combine to make this a book of real timeliness. It is unusual, and it is smart."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon

Author : Eduardo Obregón Pagán
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807862094
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon written by Eduardo Obregón Pagán and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked minority youths and burned their distinctive zoot suits. Eduardo Obregon Pagan here provides the first comprehensive social history of both the trial and the riot and argues that they resulted from a volatile mix of racial and social tensions that had long been simmering. In reconstructing the lives of the murder victim and those accused of the crime, Pagan contends that neither the convictions (which were based on little hard evidence) nor the ensuing riot arose simply from anti-Mexican sentiment. He demonstrates instead that a variety of pre-existing stresses, including demographic pressures, anxiety about nascent youth culture, and the war effort all contributed to the social tension and the eruption of violence. Moreover, he recovers a multidimensional picture of Los Angeles during World War II that incorporates the complex intersections of music, fashion, violence, race relations, and neighborhood activism. Drawing upon overlooked evidence, Pagan concludes by reconstructing the murder scene and proposes a compelling theory about what really happened the night of the murder.

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon

Author :
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442995858
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere

Author : Mike Hill
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859847770
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere written by Mike Hill and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume poses fundamental questions about the function and relevance of the public sphere, both politically and practically.

Barrio-Logos

Author : Raúl Homero Villa
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773846
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Barrio-Logos written by Raúl Homero Villa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have grown in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States' annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840s. Then, turning to the work of contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia such as Helena Maria Viramontes, Ron Arias, and Lorna Dee Cervantes, Villa demonstrates how their expressive practices re-imagine and re-create the dominant urban space as a community enabling place. In doing so, he illuminates the endless interplay in which cultural texts and practices are shaped by and act upon their social and political contexts.

Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits

Author : James T. Lemon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556356943
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits written by James T. Lemon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the agricultural frontier and through technological progress, Europeans and others and their descendants have sought to fulfill their dreams of improvement. Through businesses, governments, and other bodies, city dwellers expedited these desires by organizing settlements, communications, trade, finance, and manufacturing. In turn, cities grew mightily. To assess the present condition of cities, Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits focuses on five large North American cities at various times in the past --Philadelphia (about 1760), New York (1860), Chicago (1910), Los Angeles (1950), and Toronto (1975). Life inside these cities--specifically the economy, society and politics, public services, land development, and the geographies of circulation, workplaces, and residential districts--is the central concern of this book. Another concern is drawing contrasts and similarities between the American and Canadian urban experiences. North Americans, most now living in cities, face the challenge of a social frontier--how to maintain civility in a near-stagnant economy. Despite recent advances in cyberspace, nature has imposed limits on technical progress defined by speed, convenience, and comfort; Promethean gains through creative destruction are no longer possible. Increased preoccupation with money, status, and safety suggests that the striving inspired by liberalism is still appealing. Yet without growth, liberal dreams cannot be fulfilled. To ensure work, income equity, and a degree of freedom in thought and action, citizens and leaders in both countries will have to commit themselves as never before to managing fairness through social democracy. Sustainable cities are not possible otherwise.

Bibliographic Guide to North American History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to North American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An End and a Beginning

Author : Joseph S. O'Flaherty
Publisher : Historical Society of Southern
ISBN 13 : 9780914421054
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book An End and a Beginning written by Joseph S. O'Flaherty and published by Historical Society of Southern. This book was released on 1992 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

L.A. Freeway, an Appreciative Essay

Author : David Brodsly
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520040687
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book L.A. Freeway, an Appreciative Essay written by David Brodsly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Los Angeles Freeway, looks at the effect it has had on the community, and considers the modern parkway as a unique environment

American Cities

Author : N. O. Kura
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cities written by N. O. Kura and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nonfiction books alphabetically listed on eight US cities: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami, annotations consist mainly of the publication data, table of contents, Library of Congress classification, and Dewey class number. The books on Baltimore span the typical range of 1880-1999. Perhaps v.1 contains an introduction explaining the authors' purpose, backgrounds, and city selection criteria. Indexed by author and title. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.