Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A. s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associationsand the mystiquefor which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. It is also a compact coffee table...
Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A. s history...
San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it, according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building s pyramid. This invaluable Depression-era guide to San Francisco relates the city s history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing its culture and highlighting the important tourist attractions of the time. David Kipen s lively introduction revisits the city s literary heritagefrom Bret Harte to Kenneth...
San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it, according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940....
