California Crazy and Beyond
Subtitle: Roadside Vernacular Architecture
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: June 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco, California, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780811830188
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Vernacular architecture; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture; USA; U.S. Architecture - General; Architecture / General; California; 20th century; Roadside architecture
First sentence: California has never lacked superlatives.
Description: "At the beginning of the automobile age, in that most car crazy of places, Southern California, roadways were dotted with eye-catching beacons for travelers. Diners shaped like chili bowls, pigs, and coffee pots; hotels and theaters in Aztec and Mayan motifs; and all manner of oddly shaped buildings were part of the Western architectural landscape - a trend that spread across the country.

California Crazy & Beyond: Roadside Venacular Architecture is the most thorough documentation of this ususual architectural style, and a greatly enhanced, fully revised version of the classic book that first explored the movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: 4; label: Introduction by David Gebhard
title: 6; label: Chapter 1
title: 19; title: California Crazy; label: Chapter 2
title: 113; title: Out-of-state oddities; label: Chapter 3
title: 161; title: Signs, Cars, and Giants; label: Chapter 4
title: 169; title: Current Condition; label: Legacy
title: 175; label: Index
title: 176; label: Gebhard's Notes
title: 178; label: Photo Credits
title: 178; label: Bibliography
title: 179; label: Acknowledgements
title: 180