pt. I. California : from past to present -- pt. II. Signposts to city scenes -- pt. III. Up and down the state -- pt. IV. Appendices
The WPA Guide to 1930s Iowa
β Scribed by Federal Writers Project
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 624
- Category
- Library
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<p>Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming." Describing the history, cu
<p><i>San Diego in the 1930s</i> offers a lively account of the cityβs culture, roadside attractions, and historyβfrom the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom. The guide is revealing both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it recordsβtidbits such as the bl
pt. IV. The country around Los Angeles -- Tour 1: Los Angeles -- San Marino -- Arcadia -- Monrovia -- Azusa -- Claremont -- Upland -- San Bernardino -- Arrowhead Hot Springs -- Lake Arrowhead -- Big Bear Lake -- Pine Knot Village -- [N. Main St. -- Macy St. -- Mission Rd. -- Huntington Dr. -- US 66
<p><i>Los Angeles in the 1930s</i> returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.βs history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associationsβand the mystiqueβfor which
San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it, according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building's pyramid. This invalua