| Description |
1 online resource (lxviii, 433 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Previously published: New York : Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles : a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series. |
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With new introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-419) and index. |
| Summary |
Describes a pivotal moment in Los Angeles history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s a guide to the contemporary culture, with a brief L.A. history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Guidebooks.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Description and travel.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Guidebooks.
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History.
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Guidebooks.
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| Added Author |
Kipen, David.
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| Added Title |
Los Angeles : a guide to the city and its environs.
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American guide series.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California. Angeles in the 1930s. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011 9780520268838 (OCoLC)668191552 |
| ISBN |
9780520948860 (electronic book) |
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0520948866 (electronic book) |
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9780520268838 |
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0520268830 |
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