Los Angeles in the 1930s [electronic resource] : the WPA guide to the City of Angels / Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration ; introduction by David Kipen.

Los Angeles : a guide to the city and its environs.
American guide series.

9780520948860 (electronic bk.)
0520948866 (electronic bk.)
9780520268838
0520268830

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (lxviii, 433 p.) : ill., maps.

F869.L83 W74 2011eb

979.4/94

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.

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.
With new introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-419) and index.

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