Santa Monica Beach
| Author | : Ernest Marquez |
| Publisher | : Angel City Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2011-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781883318956 |
Early Santa Monica
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Santa Monica Pier
| Author | : James Harris |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9781883318826 |
Santa Monica Pier now stands as the last remnant of the bay's once many pleasure piers. For over 100 years it has captured the imagination of its many visitors. This collection of vintage images, artwork, history and treasured lore offers readers the opportunity to travel through time.
Early Santa Monica
| Author | : Louise B. Gabriel |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738531441 |
As west as metropolitan Los Angeles's trendy Westside gets, Santa Monica has enjoyed a colorful history as both a resort community and a bedrock hometown on the Southern California coast. As a playground and ready-made set for Hollywood, traditional hotbed of progressive politics, and amorphous fun zone for a greater century of visitors, the city of Santa Monica has remained at the forefront of the evolution of California culture. Prior to World War II, Santa Monica was a collection of distinct neighborhoods--Santa Monica Canyon and Ocean Park among them--and its pier, built in 1909 beneath the bluffs of Palisades Park, became a regional draw, especially after the nation's largest dance emporium, La Monica Ballroom, was built on it. The vintage photographs in this tour through Santa Monica's beginnings and its growth through the early 20th century were selected from the archives of the Santa Monica Historical Society Museum.
Living the California Dream
| Author | : Alison Rose Jefferson |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1496229061 |
2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.
Santa Monica
| Author | : Louise B. Gabriel |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738581439 |
The city of Santa Monica in the post-World War II era has enjoyed a colorful history as both a resort community and as a bustling, vibrant city. Its coastal Mediterranean climate has provided an ideal atmosphere for the famous California lifestyle. Known for the 100-year-old Santa Monica Pier, as well as the Third Street Promenade, for its beautiful beaches and quaint neighborhoods, Santa Monica has been home to many famous Hollywood movie stars, including Shirley Temple, Cary Grant, Betty Grable, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, and Robert Redford. Arnold Schwarzenegger has also maintained offices here. Santa Monica has played host to many of the nation's most famous names, such as Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and U.S. president John F. Kennedy. The companion piece to the same author's Images of America: Early Santa Monica, this volume's more than 200 photographs cover the dynamic people, businesses, events, attractions, and celebrities that have shaped Santa Monica into the world-renowned city of today.
Pacific Ocean Park
| Author | : Christopher Merritt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781934170526 |
Pacific Ocean Park - or P.O.P. - was extraordinary in both its glamorous rise and spectacular fall. Located between Santa Monica and Venice, it was a family-oriented attraction in the '50s with modernist-style rides. P.O.P.'s attendance surpassed that of Disneyland and was often widely seen in movies and television shows throughout the '60s. Its Cheetah auditorium hosted important early rock shows, including those by The Doors and Pink Floyd. Merritt and Priore's spectacular history features hundreds of images, most of them unseen, including original ride designs.
Santa Monica
| Author | : Michael Murphy |
| Publisher | : America Through Time |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781634990509 |
'Portrait of Santa Monica, 1902,' written by Sara Crown of the Santa Monica History Museum
West of West
| Author | : Laura Barton |
| Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2020-01-23 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1783527714 |
Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front, and the family setting up camp on the soft, warm sand. To the blues and yellows and pinks of fierce, determined revelry. Santa Monica, where the wooden pier juts out into the Pacific Ocean, marks the end of Route 66. The great American journey west culminates here, and it is on this short stretch of coast that Sarah Lee began shooting her photographic series in 2015. In West of West Sarah Lee and Laura Barton explore the idea of the West in shaping American identity, with its idealism and notions of the frontier, and what the American West means in an age of political turbulence, when the East is the rising global force and the frontier is shifting once more.
From Cows to Concrete
| Author | : Rachel Surls |
| Publisher | : Angel City Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-05-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781626400313 |
What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where today's freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Klieg lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Nature's gifts that no one could imagine a more pastoral place? Los Angeles County was the center of an agricultural empire. Today, it is the nation's most populous urban metropolis. What happened? Where did the green go? As Americans connect with gardens, farmers markets, and urban farms, most are unaware that each of these activities have deep roots in Los Angeles, and that the healthy food they savor literally had its roots in L.A. This book is for all who treasure the country's agrarian history.
The Keystone Kid
| Author | : Coy Watson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Child actors |
| ISBN | : 9781891661211 |
Coy Watson, Jr. made his motion picture debut in 1913 when he was nine months old. His appearances in Mack Sennett's popular Keystone Cop comedies earned him the nickname The Keystone Kid' and established him as Hollywood's first child star. In this memoir Watson shares his memories of the idyllic early days of Hollywood and of being raised as a member of 'The First Family of Hollywood'. Watson, his father and his siblings appeared in over 1,000 films, including many classics with the biggest names in the industry. Features hundreds of b/w photos throughout.'
