Los Angeles, the end of the rainbow
By: Merry Ovnick ; photographs by Carol Monteverde.
Publisher: Balcony Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-380) and index.
Table of contents: label: 8
title: PREFACE; title: PART I FOUNDATIONS; label: 12
title: CHAPTER I Mystical Essence/Tangible Architecture; label: 22
title: CHAPTER II Simply Paradise: The Indians, to 1769; title: PART II EL PUEBLO DE NUESTRA SEÑORA, LA REINA DE LOS ANGELES; label: 30
title: CHAPTER III Spanish Pueblo, 1781-1821; label: 42
title: CHAPTER IV From Mexican Pueblo to Bilingual Cowtown; title: PART III SOLD! TO THE MAN IN THE FRONT ROW! - SELLING A CITY; label: 68
title: CHAPTER V 1870s Promotionalism: The Railroad, Agriculture, and Health; label: 88
title: CHAPTER VI The 1880s Boom: Victoriana Exoticized; title: PART IV DEFINING AN IDENTITY, 1890s to 1920; label: 102
title: CHAPTER VII The 1890s: A Search for Meaning; label: 122
title: CHAPTER VIII Facing West; title: PART V MOVIE STARS AND HARD TIMES, 1920=1939; label: 154
title: CHAPTER IX Revivalism: Insecurity and Pretense; label: 178
title: CHAPTER X Los Angeles Finds Its Own Style; label: 198
title: CHAPTER XI Daring Originals; label: 228
title: CHAPTER XII Ordinary Dreams; title: PART VI DREAMING ON; label: 252
title: CHAPTER XIII Rosie and Joe and a House in L.A., 1939-1960; label: 296
title: CHAPTER XIV Is This the End of the Rainbow?; label: 326
title: EPILOGUE; label: 330
title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; label: 335
title: NOTES; label: 381
title: INDEX