Silver Lake Bohemia: A History

by Michael Locke and Vincent Brook

Book Overview

Since the early 1900s, Silver Lake has been a magnet for iconoclastic writers, architects and political activists. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Hollyhock House for socialist and oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, drew a wave of visionary modernists to the area. Local civil rights advocate Loren Miller spearheaded the fight against housing discrimination. Silver Lake's Black Cat bar and Harry Hay's Mattachine Society were central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467135321
• ISBN13: 9781467135320
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"