wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Soaring Skyward: A History of Aviation in and around Long Beach, California
ISBN: 9781467033619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Flying was a perilous adventure, with death only a small breath away. Many lost their lives in pursuit of their dream and have remained relatively forgotten, until now. (italics until now) "Aviation fever" struck young and old alike, especially after the four Dominguez Air Meets held in Southern California between 1910-1913. It inspired many such as the Birnie and French brothers, Charles Day, and Glenn Martin to build their own air ships. For others like Frank Champion, Long Beach's first airman, it meant learning from the best---traveling to London, England, to study with Louis Bleriot, and...
Flying was a perilous adventure, with death only a small breath away. Many lost their lives in pursuit of their dream and have remained relatively for...
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153,80 zł |
Prohibition Madness: Life and Death in and Around Long Beach, California, 1920-1933
ISBN: 9781477291610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Throughout America cocktail parties sparkled defiantly through the dreaded first minutes of January 20, 1920. With morning would come the official start of Prohibition. It was easy, however, to keep the party going in Long Beach, California. Though Long Beach had been "dry" throughout most of its history, illegal liquor distribution throughout the city was already perfected by the time the 18th Amendment, banning the sale of most alcoholic beverages, became law. Already in place were underground booze operations, secretive speakeasies and bootlegging, the perfect staging ground for crime,...
Throughout America cocktail parties sparkled defiantly through the dreaded first minutes of January 20, 1920. With morning would come the official sta...
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123,00 zł |
The Red Scare, Ufos & Elvis: Long Beach Enters the Atomic Age
ISBN: 9781546247234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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102,66 zł |
Fighting Fear: Long Beach, CA. in the 1940s
ISBN: 9781496914712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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102,45 zł |
Haunted Long Beach 2: The Odd and Unusual in and Around Long Beach, California
ISBN: 9781452054483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Claudine Burnett, author of popular Murderous Intent and Strange Sea Tales Along the Southern California Coast, has at last revised and updated the long out of print Haunted Long Beach. New stories and updates have come her way since the original Haunted Long Beach was published in 1996. Now readers can rediscover the "ghostly" side of one of America's finest cities----haunted houses, phantom airplanes, cemetery apparitions, and ghosts of the Queen Mary come alive in these true stories of eerie happenings in Long Beach, California. Gathered from historical files and personal experiences, Ms....
Claudine Burnett, author of popular Murderous Intent and Strange Sea Tales Along the Southern California Coast, has at last revised and updated the lo...
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102,66 zł |
African Americans in Long Beach and Southern California: a History
ISBN: 9781665516792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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148,88 zł |
Died in Long Beach: Cemetery Tales
ISBN: 9781524611026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long Beach was one of the many Southern California cities that grew out of the railroad fare wars of the late 1880s. It was built by men and women who toiled to make it the great metropolis it is today. These are the tales of those who died or are buried in Long Beach. Some were illustrious in their time, others just common folk with interesting stories to tell. Politicians, city founders, visitors, influenza victims, Civil War veterans and accident victims are all discussed here, as well as the hospitals, doctors, undertakers and others who cared for the dead and dying. But what makes Long...
Long Beach was one of the many Southern California cities that grew out of the railroad fare wars of the late 1880s. It was built by men and women who...
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107,79 zł |
Murderous Intent?: Long Beach, CA: 1880's-1920
ISBN: 9781438940441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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92,39 zł |
Surfing Newport Beach: The Glory Days of Corona del Mar
ISBN: 9781540232656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |