Los Angeles in the 1930s

The WPA Guide to the City of Angels

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Los Angeles in the 1930s by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration, University of California Press
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Author: Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration ISBN: 9780520948860
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: April 5, 2011
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
ISBN: 9780520948860
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: April 5, 2011
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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 associations—and the mystique—for 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 book of dazzling monochrome photography. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A.’s past and continue to shape its future.

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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 associations—and the mystique—for 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 book of dazzling monochrome photography. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A.’s past and continue to shape its future.

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