Gebhard, David.

Los Angeles in the thirties, 1931-1941 / David Gebhard and Harriette von Breton.

2nd ed., rev. and enlarged.

Los Angeles : Hennessey & Ingalls, 1989.

185 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

California architecture and architects ; no. 7

"Speed, mobility, freedom: these governed the aesthetics of the "city of the future" as it spread its arterials across the Southern California landscape. If ever a city and a decade seemed meant for each other, it was Los Angeles and the streamlined '30s. The gloom of the Depression did little to curb the dynamism of this optimistic, greedy, sprawling metropolis. The Hollywood dream machine mirrored the aspirations of millions of Americans - a single-family home and yard, the independence of a private car on uncluttered streets, and the latest household conveniences. And L.A.'s built environment reflected the dreams, realizing in fact what the film sets offered in fantasy, with imagery ranging from up-to-date recreations of popular period styles to the stripped-classic monumentality of public buildings, and on toward the future in the sleek Moderne of curved corners, fluidly bent neon and metal tubing, and sculpted surfaces of stucco and glass brick ... Attention is focused on the types of architectural imagery used in commercial, public, and residential buildings..."--Page 4 of cover.

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Architecture California Los Angeles History.
Architecture Californie Los Angeles.
Architecture Californie Los Angeles 20e siècle.
Architecture Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Constructions.
California Los Angeles.
Geschichte 1931-1941

History.

Von Breton, Harriette.
Gebhard, David. L.A. in the thirties, 1931-1941.
California architecture and architects ; no. 7.

Location: Library main 108950
Call No.: ID NA735.L55.G42; ID:96-B1401
Status: Available