Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s /
Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This collection of original e...
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2001
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s / Jules Tygiel
- Industry and imaginative geographies / Greg Hise
- Mulholland Highway and the engineering culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s / Matthew W. Roth
- The quest for independence : workers in the suburbs / Becky M. Nicolaides
- Sunshine and the open shop : Ford and Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles / Mike Davis
- "Another world" : work, home, and autonomy in blue-collar suburbs / Nancy Quam-Wickham
- The Star of Ethiopia and the NAACP : pageantry, politics, and the Los Angeles African American community / Douglas Flamming
- Making Mexico in Los Angeles / Douglas Monroy
- The view from Spring Street : white-collar men in the city of angels / Clark Davis
- "Practically every religion being represented" / Michael E. Engh
- Fighting like the devil in the city of angels : the rise of fundamentalist Charles E. Fuller / Philip Goff
- How Hollywood became Hollywood : money, politics, and movies / Steven J. Ross
- My America or yours? Americanization and the battle for the youth of Los Angeles / William Deverell
- Did the ruling class rule at city hall in 1920s Los Angeles? / Tom Sitton
- Behind the scenes : Bronco Billy and the realities of work in open shop Hollywood / Laurie Pintar
- Selling eternity in 1920s Los Angeles / David Charles Sloane.
