@article{437862, recid = {437862}, author = {Kipen, David.}, title = {Los Angeles in the 1930s the WPA guide to the City of Angels / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {University of California Press,}, address = {Berkeley :}, pages = {1 online resource (lxviii, 433 p.) :}, year = {2011}, 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.}, abstract = {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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437862}, }