Culver City Chronicles

By Julie Lugo Cerra

Book Overview

Culver City has rivaled Hollywood for nearly a century as the Heart of Screenland--a center of the movie and television trades. Here, the giant Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer evolved into Sony Pictures, and the Ince and Selznick movie empires became today's Culver Studios. But the same lands along Ballona Creek had been a wilderness traversed by Native Americans and settled by hardy Spanish pioneers named Machado, Talamantes and Higuera. Union soldiers occupied the area's Civil War-era Camp Latham. By 1910, visionary Harry H. Culver saw possibilities for these ranchlands and led Culver City to incorporate in 1917. Join official city historian Julie Lugo Cerra, a descendant of early settlers, as she relates the fascinating stories of how and why Culver City grew and prospered.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609497775
• ISBN13: 9781609497774
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"