Los Angeles in the 1930s: The Wpa Guide to the City of Angels

by David Kipen, Work Projects Administration, Ruth Bender

Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s 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. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520268830
• ISBN13: 9780520268838
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"