Main entry:

WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California.

Title & Author:

Los Angeles in the 1930s : the WPA guide to the City of Angels / Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration ; introduction by David Kipen.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

Description:

lxviii, 433 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

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).
With new introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-419) and index.
List of illustrations -- List of maps -- The WPA Guide to Renaissance Florence, or a writer's paradise / David Kipen -- Preface 1941 -- General information -- Hotel and other accommodations -- Restaurants -- Night clubs -- Recreational facilities -- Calendar of annual events -- pt. I. Los Angeles: a general survey -- The contemporary scene -- Natural setting -- Pueblo to metropolis -- Education -- Religion -- The Movies -- Radio -- The Arts -- The business of pleasure -- pt. II. Los Angeles points of interest -- Downtown Los Angeles -- The industrial section -- The north and east sections -- The northwest section -- The Wilshire and west sections -- The southwest section -- pt. III. Neighboring cities -- Beverly Hills -- Glendale -- The Harbor: San Pedro and Wilmington -- Hollywood -- Long Beach and Signal Hill -- Pasadena -- Santa Monica.
pt. IV. The country around Los Angeles -- Tour 1: Los Angeles -- San Marino -- Arcadia -- Monrovia -- Azusa -- Claremont -- Upland -- San Bernardino -- Arrowhead Hot Springs -- Lake Arrowhead -- Big Bear Lake -- Pine Knot Village -- [N. Main St. -- Macy St. -- Mission Rd. -- Huntington Dr. -- US 66 -- State 18] -- Tour 1A: South Pasadena -- Pasadena -- Flintridge -- La Canada -- Mount Wilson Observatory -- [Fair Oaks Ave. -- Atlanta St. -- Arroyo Dr. -- La Canada-Verdugo Rd. -- State 118 -- Foothill Blvd. -- Haskell St. -- Angeles Crest Highway -- State 2 -- Mount Wilson Rd. -- Tour 1B: Azusa -- Angeles National Forest -- Pine Flats -- Crystal Lake -- [State 39 -- Crystal Lake Rd.] -- Tour 2: Los Angeles -- Monterey Park -- Pomona -- Ontario -- Colton -- Redlands -- Beaumont -- Manning -- Palm Springs -- Cathedral City -- Indio -- [N. Main St. -- Aliso St. -- Romona Blvd. -- US 99 -- State 111] -- Tour 3: Los Angeles -- Alhambra -- El Monte -- Puente -- Pomona -- Ontario -- Riverside -- Perris -- Elsinore -- Corona -- Anaheim -- Norwalk -- Downey -- Southgate -- Los Angeles -- [Valley Blvd. -- US 60 -- US 395 -- State 71 -- State 18 -- State 10 -- Alameda St. -- Tour 4: Los Angeles -- Belvedere -- Montebello -- Whittier -- Fullerton -- Anaheim -- Santa Ana -- Tustin -- Irvine -- Capistrano -- Doheny Park -- [US 101] -- Tour 5: Los Angeles -- Culver City -- Venice -- Redondo -- Wilmington -- Long Beach -- Seal Beach -- Huntington Beach -- Newport -- Balboa -- Laguna Beach -- Doheny Park -- [Washington Blvd. -- Venice Speedway -- Vista del Mar -- US 101A] -- Tour 5A: Wilmington -- Santa Catalina Island [by boat] -- Tour 6: Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Sherman Oaks -- Tarzana -- Girard -- Topanga Canyon -- Topanga Beach -- Castellammare -- Santa Monica -- [US 101 -- Sunset Blvd. -- Cahuenga Ave. -- Ventura Blvd. -- Topanga Canyon Rd. -- US 101A] -- Tour 7: Los Angeles -- Burbank -- San Fernando -- Palmdale -- Big Pines -- San Bernardino -- [US 6 -- State 138 -- Big Pines Rd. -- US 66] -- pt. V. Appendices -- Chronology.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780520268838 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520268830 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Buildings
Manners and customs
Travel
Los Angeles (Calif.) Guidebooks.
Los Angeles (Calif.) History.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Description and travel.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social life and customs.
California Los Angeles

Form/genre:

travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
History
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Kipen, David.
American guide series.
Los Angeles : a guide to the city and its environs.

WPA guide to the City of Angels

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272293
Call No.: BIB 205556
Status: Available