Los Angeles
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Los Angeles

Biography of a City

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eBook - ePub

Los Angeles

Biography of a City

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Los Angeles, City of Angels. A city with a remarkable history, over 200 years old. Interwoven with the Caughey's commentary are over 100 of the choicest essays on Los Angeles. The saga of cowtown turned post-war metropolis unfolds before the reader.
Los Angeles, City of Angels. A city with a remarkable history, over 200 years old. Interwoven with the Caughey's commentary are over 100 of the choicest essays on Los Angeles. The saga of cowtown turned post-war metropolis unfolds before the reader.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520034105
eBook ISBN
9780520342927
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. The Gabrielino and Their Home
  8. 1 The Gabrielino and Their Home
  9. The Gabrielino
  10. People of the Chaparral
  11. A Way of Life
  12. Channel Island Artifacts
  13. Instructing the Children
  14. Talking to Grizzlies
  15. Coyote and the Water
  16. Laborers and Servants
  17. The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
  18. The Spaniards Steal the Scene
  19. First Glimpses of the Coast
  20. Along the Coast in 1602
  21. First Travelers through the Land
  22. Founding Mission San Gabriel
  23. Three Tortillas a Day
  24. The Mission Flourishes
  25. Recommending a Pueblo on the Porciúncula
  26. Instructions for the Recruitment of the Original Settlers of the
  27. The Pueblo of Los Angeles Is Founded
  28. Petition for a Land Grant
  29. The Country Town of the Angels
  30. Pastoral Interlude
  31. A Mission at Climax
  32. A Paramedic on Tour
  33. California’s First Vigilance Committee
  34. A Floating General Store
  35. A Rascally Set
  36. License To Marry
  37. The Decay of the Mission
  38. Life on the Ranchos
  39. Gold! Gold! Gold! from
  40. Carrillo Family Anecdotes
  41. American Takeover
  42. California Proclaimed American
  43. By Far the Most Favourable Portion
  44. A Forty-Niner Welcomed
  45. Slave Mart
  46. I Know the “Californians” Well
  47. The Washington Birthday Ball
  48. Reminiscences of the Fifties
  49. Crime and Punishment
  50. Getting Out the Vote
  51. The Captivity of Olive Oatman
  52. A Most Lovely Locality
  53. The Passing of the Cow Counties
  54. An American City Emerges
  55. The Centennial Parade July 4, 1876
  56. Childhood Recollections
  57. Vagrant Rivers
  58. Madame Modjeska’s Utopian Dream
  59. Ranchos Tejón
  60. A Health Rush Begins
  61. Water Rights in Condominium
  62. Steel Ropes into the Howling Wilderness
  63. The Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians
  64. The Great Southern California Boom
  65. Specter of No Growth
  66. The Fight for a Free Port
  67. Sunkist Advertising— The Iowa Campaign
  68. Pacific Electric
  69. "The Rape of Owens Valley"
  70. "There It Is-Take It"
  71. Abbot Kinney’s Venice
  72. The Missions Romanticized
  73. Autos and Movies and Oil
  74. A Motor Trip in 1910
  75. Enter the Moviemakers
  76. “The Crime of the Century"
  77. "Casey Jones Was an Angeleno"
  78. The Chaparral
  79. The Belled Doe
  80. The Real Estate Boom of the Twenties
  81. The House that God Built
  82. Across the Generation Gap
  83. Millionaires’ Retreat
  84. A Time of Catastrophe
  85. The Failure of San Francisquito Dam
  86. The Long Beach Earthquake
  87. I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty
  88. The Miracle of the Boysenberry
  89. Simon Rodia
  90. Introducing the Cut-Rate Drug Store
  91. Building Boulder Dam
  92. Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
  93. The White Wing as Artist
  94. What Makes Sammy Run?
  95. THE FIRST FREEWAY H. MARSHALL GOODWIN, JR.
  96. "When I Return from a Trip to the East"
  97. Adjusting to War and to Peace
  98. Johnny Got His Gun
  99. The Great Los Angeles Air Raid
  100. Why It Happened Here
  101. Impact of Relocation
  102. One Big Assembly Line
  103. War on the Zoot-Suiters
  104. Smog Settles Over Los Angeles
  105. Scotching Restrictive Covenants
  106. The Garment Industry
  107. From War Profits to Peace Profits
  108. Megalopolis
  109. Supersubdivider
  110. The Sign-Up
  111. Hyperion to a Satyr
  112. A Revolution under the Ribs
  113. A Plea for Abolition of the Death Penalty
  114. H2O‘Malley, or, Let ‘em Drink Beer
  115. Nobody Was Listening
  116. La Ley—The Law
  117. Home is a Freeway
  118. Farewell to California's "Loyalty” Oath
  119. Overview
  120. City Limits or New Horizons
  121. The Mountains and the Megalopolis
  122. Brush Fires
  123. Black Mesa
  124. Smog for Export
  125. A New Force—the Blacks
  126. UCLA
  127. Parthenon of the West
  128. “All in the Family“
  129. Slaves and Masters of the Freeways
  130. Serendipity at 55 m.p.h.
  131. Three Prongs in the Fountain
  132. Planning for the Future ALLAN TEMKO AND HARVEY S. PERLOFF
  133. Prospects of New Horizons
  134. Acknowledgments
  135. Selected Readings
  136. Index