Los Angeles in the 1930s
Subtitle: the WPA guide to the City of Angels
By: Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration ; introduction by David Kipen
Contributors: Kipen, David
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780520268838
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Social life and customs; Guidebooks; Description and travel; History
Other titles: WPA guide to the City of Angels; American guide series; Los Angeles : a guide to the city and its environs.
Description: Describes a pivotal moment in Los Angeles history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s a guide to the contemporary culture, with a brief L.A. history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty.
Notes: Previously published: New York : Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles : a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.

With new introduction (p. xix-xxix).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-419) and index.