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Author : David F. Myrick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Determined Mrs. Rindge and Her Legendary Railroad written by David F. Myrick and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles P. Hobbs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852002
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
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.
Author : Jay Ruby
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322722
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Coffee House Positano written by Jay Ruby and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique auto-ethnographic study of life at the Coffee House Positano—a Bohemian coffee house in Malibu, California—during the late 1950s and early 1960s is a combination of historical reconstruction and personal memoir. An ebook consisting of a collection of memories expressed through multiple formats—text, image, audio, and video—it describes in illuminating detail the great range of people who frequented Positano and the activities that took place there over its short but influential existence. As an ethnographer analyzing his own culture, author Jay Ruby uses a unique ethnographic method known as “studying sideways.” He combines the exploration of self and others with the theoretical framework of anthropology to provide deep insight into the counterculture of late 1950s and early 1960s America. He shares his connection to Positano, where he lived and worked from 1957 to 1959 and again in 1963, and reflects on Positano in the context of US counterculture and the greater role of countercultures in society. This intimate and significant work will be of interest to anthropologists as well as scholars and the general reader interested in California history, Beat culture, and countercultural movements.
Author : Sharon Huxford
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ISBN 13 : 9781574321197
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Old Book Value Guide written by Sharon Huxford and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listing nearly 25,000 book titles with current values, this updated and revised 11th edition features a simple and easy-to-use format.
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Total Pages : 966 pages
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Author : Suzanne Guldimann
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ISBN 13 : 9781734460124
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Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Life in Malibu II written by Suzanne Guldimann and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malibu remains one of the most desired, fought over, and storied coastlines on earth. This second volume of Life in Malibu offers more of the little known history and natural history behind the storied name. From the legendary Malibu railroad to the 2018 Woolsey Fire, and from bioluminescent zooplankton to the elusive green flash that appears as the sun sets over the ocean, this is the real Malibu.
Author : Suzanne Guldimann
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ISBN 13 : 9780966766493
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Life in Malibu written by Suzanne Guldimann and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The real Malibu, the one beyond the tabloid stories and the mega-mansions, is a continually surprising place where incredible natural beauty has made it one of the most desired, fought over, and storied coastlines on earth. This book offers a look at the history and nature of this famous seaside community"--back cover.
Author : David K. Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292932
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise written by David K. Randall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A true story of the battle for paradise…men and women fighting for a slice of earth like no other." —New York Times Book Review Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart of this story of American grit and determinism. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she was a poor Midwestern farmer’s daughter raised to be suspicious of the seasons. Yet the bond between them would shape history. The newly married couple reached Los Angeles in 1887 when it was still a frontier, and within a few years Frederick, the only heir to an immense Boston fortune, became one of the wealthiest men in the state. After his sudden death in 1905, May spent the next thirty years fighting off some of the most powerful men in the country—as well as fissures within her own family—to preserve Malibu as her private kingdom. Her struggle, one of the longest over land in California history, would culminate in a landmark Supreme Court decision and lead to the creation of the Pacific Coast Highway. The King and Queen of Malibu traces the path of one family as the country around them swept off the last vestiges of the Civil War and moved into what we would recognize as the modern age. The story of Malibu ranges from the halls of Harvard to the Old West in New Mexico to the beginnings of San Francisco’s counter culture amid the Gilded Age, and culminates in the glamour of early Hollywood—all during the brief sliver of history in which the advent of railroads and the automobile traversed a beckoning American frontier and anything seemed possible.
Author : Robert C. Hayden
Publisher : Boston Public Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book African-Americans in Boston written by Robert C. Hayden and published by Boston Public Library. This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "must" introduction to significant African-American events & people in Massachusetts where so much American history began. The first slaves arrived in Boston in 1638; the first Black gave his life in the Boston Massacre. Entries are dramatic bullet-style cameos set off by more than 100 photographs. Arranged chronologically within a dozen categories--Science, Religion, Government, Creative Arts, among them--the elegantly designed paperback offers instant identification of names & invites follow up research--a catalyst "to find out more." Among the entries: a high school student wins ten dollars in gold for her essay on the "Evils of Intemperance"; a physician fights for the right to deliver babies at the city hospital; Blacks unite in protest against the film BIRTH OF A NATION; a Boston mechanic invents a diving suit & a dentist invents a golf tee. The BOSTON GLOBE calls it a book that explores the "rich heritage & legacy of leaders who lived here but had an impact upon all America--including Frederick Douglass, William DuBois, Phillis Wheatley, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." An executive of Bank of Boston, which funded the publication, calls it "a book about dreams." And the dreams came true. Available through Publisher's Sales Office--666 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, Tele-(617)-536-5400. xt 346.
Author : Dwight Loomis
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Total Pages : 784 pages
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Download or read book The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut written by Dwight Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307795268
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Coast of Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state was sometimes stumbling, sometimes humbled, but, more often, flourishing with its usual panache. From gang violence in Los Angeles to the spectacular rise–and equally spectacular fall–of Silicon Valley, from the Northridge earthquake to the recall of Governor Gray Davis, Starr ranges over myriad facts, anecdotes, news stories, personal impressions, and analyses to explore a time of unprecedented upheaval in California. Coast of Dreams describes an exceptional diversity of people, cultures, and values; an economy that mirrors the economic state of the nation; a battlefield where industry and the necessities of infrastructure collide with the inherent demands of a unique and stunning natural environment. It explores California politics (including Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election in the 2003 recall), the multifaceted business landscape, and controversial icons such as O. J. Simpson. “Historians of the future,” Starr writes, “will be able to see with more certainty whether or not the period 1990-2003 was not only the end of one California but the beginning of another”; in the meantime, he gives a picture of the place and time in a book at once sweeping and riveting in its details, deeply informed, engagingly personal, and altogether fascinating.
Author : William Allen Wallace
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Total Pages : 800 pages
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Author : Frederick Hastings Rindge
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Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Happy Days in Southern California written by Frederick Hastings Rindge and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857-1905) moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles in 1882 and bought the famed rancho at Malibu, which he dubbed "Laudamus Farm." Happy days in southern California (1898) opens with a history of the region, followed by chapters dealing with different lifestyles in the area: "seaside life" at Redondo, Santa Monica, and Santa Catalina, and the fish and animals of the sea; ranch life; climate; horseback riding; and mountain climbing.
Author : David F. Myrick
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826311856
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)
Download or read book New Mexico's Railroads written by David F. Myrick and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From narrow-gauge lines to Amtrak, this railroad lover's book shows the importance of trains to New Mexico's heritage.
Author : Maturia Murray Ballou
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Total Pages : 839 pages
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Download or read book Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion written by Maturia Murray Ballou and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 434 pages
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Author : John Branson
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616085541
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book More Readings From One Man's Wilderness written by John Branson and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard L. Proenneke--a modern-day Henry David Thoreau--built a cabin in Twin Lakes, Alaska, during the spring of 1968, sparking thirty years of personal growth in which he spent the majority of his time strengthening his relationship with the wilderness around him. Following in the footsteps of One Man's Wilderness, a classic book compiling some of the mountain man's journals, More Readings from One Man's Wilderness chronicles Proenneke's experiences with animals, the elements, park visitors, and observations he made while hiking in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. A master woodcraftsman, a mechanical genius, a tireless hiker with a keen eye, and a journalist, Proenneke's life at Twin Lakes has inspired thousands of readers for decades. Editor John Branson--a longtime friend of Proenneke's and a park historian--ensures that Proenneke's journals from 1974-1980 are kept entirely intact. His colloquial writing is not changed or altered, but Branson's footnotes make his world more approachable by providing a background for names and places that may have otherwise been unknown. Any reader with a love for conservation and true-life wilderness narratives will undoubtedly admire and relish Proenneke's tales of living in the wild. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports--books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
