Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s Introduction : Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s Jules Tygiel Industry and imaginative geographies Greg Hise Mulholland Highway and the engineering culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s Matthew W. Roth The quest for independence : workers in the suburbs Becky M. Nicolaides Sunshine and the open shop : Ford and Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles Mike Davis Another world : work home and autonomy in blue collar suburbs Nancy Quam Wickham The Star of Ethiopia and the NAACP : pageantry politics and the Los Angeles African American community Douglas Flamming Making Mexico in Los Angeles Douglas Monroy The view from Spring Street : white collar men in the city of angels Clark Davis Practically every religion being represented Michael E. Engh Fighting like the devil in the city of angels : the rise of fundamentalist Charles E. Fuller Philip Goff How Hollywood became Hollywood : money politics and movies Steven J. Ross My America or yours Americanization and the battle for the youth of Los Angeles William Deverell Did the ruling class rule at city hall in 1920s Los Angeles Tom Sitton Behind the scenes : Bronco Billy and the realities of work in open shop Hollywood Laurie Pintar Selling eternity in 1920s Los Angeles David Charles Sloane