Paradise promoted
Subtitle: the booster campaign that created Los Angeles, 1870-1930
By: Tom Zimmerman ; design by Amy Inouye.
Publisher: Angel City Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781883318642
Subjects: City promotion -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century; City promotion -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; City promotion -- United States -- Case studies; Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth -- Case studies; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Pictorial works; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Sources
Genres: Case studies; Pictorial works; Sources
Description: "With more than 500 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise promoted is the first book to showcase the era from 1870 to 1930 when boosters developed the small town of Los Angeles into the city that would become Americas most cutting-edge metropolis"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: A flower in the golden land of Los Angeles; title: California south of Tehachapi; title: A few nuts and how to crack them; title: Where nature helps industry most; title: Red cars of empire; title: Movie studios; title: Airplanes will take land values up; title: Southern California all the year; title: Don't come here looking for a job.