Main entry:

Ovnick, Merry.

Title & Author:

Los Angeles, the end of the rainbow / Merry Ovnick ; photographs by Carol Monteverde.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Balcony Press, 1994.

Description:

384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-380) and index.
Part I. Foundations: -- 1. Mystical essence / Tangible Architecture -- 2. Simply paradise : the Indians, to 1769 -- Part II. El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora, LA Reina de Los Angeles: -- 3. Spanish Pueblo, 1781-1821 -- 4. From Mexican Pueblo to bilingual cowtown -- Part III. Sold! To the man in the front row! -- Selling a city: -- 5. 1870s promotionalism : the railroad, agriculture, and health -- 6. The 1880s boom : Victoriana exoticized -- Part IV. Defining an identity, 1890s to 1920: -- 7. The 1890s : a search for meaning -- 8. Facing west -- Part V. Movie stars and hard times, 1920-1939: -- 9. Revivalism : insecurity and pretense -- 10. Los Angeles finds its own style -- 11. Daring originals -- 12. Ordinary dreams -- Part VI. Dreaming on: -- 13. Rosie and Joe and a house in L.A., 1939-1960 -- 14. Is this the end of the rainbow?

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0964311909 (pbk.)
9780964311909 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic California Los Angeles.
Architecture domestique Californie Los Angeles.
Architecture, Domestic.
Buildings.
Civilization.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilization.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilisation.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Constructions.
California Los Angeles.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 83082
Call No.: ID F869.L85 O96; ID:95-B3141
Status: Available