Title: California Crazy and Beyond
First published: June 2001
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.
Subjects: Roadside architecture, History, Vernacular architecture, Architecture, California, California architecture, Modern architecture, 20th century architecture, Architecture, united states
Places: Randy's Donuts, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
People: Aimee Semple McPherson, Alice Faye, Robert H. Derrah, Herbert Mizner, Jack Warner, Mary Pickford