Lucky Ladies, Lost Angels

By Kim Hedden

Settled by Spanish priests on precariously shifting earth, El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles began as a city of the faithful, though by the early twentieth century it was dominated by pragmatic Anglos and capitalists. Agricultural barons and land swindlers thrived, along with oil drillers, dairies and the embryonic motion picture industry, which also began to stake its claim to the land. Apart from the native Angelinos, everyone moved to the city from dryer, colder or poorer circumstances, but always from somewhere else.

The stories in Lucky Ladies, Lost Angels follow the evolution of the city from a smog-free paradise of citrus groves and bean fields to the urban behemoth it has become today-all through the eyes of women. Wives and single women, mothers and daughters, sisters and strangers tell their stories. They vary in age, economic status, race, background, and a sense of self-limited by the times in which each lives. Some were born in Los Angeles and chose to remain, others live there temporarily or are returning home, but all their stories resonate against the hollowness of a city built on the presumption of happy endings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BXN8RW7N
• ISBN13: 9798374104127
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"