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Westside Chronicles: Historic Stories of West Los Angeles

By Jan Loomis

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2012
ISBN
9781614237396, 9781609496234
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3212130 bytes)
Series
American Chronicles
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-11-04 15:21:49
History; Nonfiction; HIS036140

Description

Los Angeles sprawled westward toward the sand and sea of Santa Monica Bay throughout the twentieth century as land-grant ranchos gave way to capitalists and promoters. Developers subdivided the coastal land into neighborhoods and communities: Santa Monica, Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Marina del Rey. These became places known to the nation at large for movie stars, moguls and business tycoons; for Will Rogers, Henry Huntington and UCLA; and for estate homes, amusement piers and surfing beaches. Join Jan Loomis, a former West L.A. magazine publisher and historian, as she tells the stories behind how it all came to be West Los Angeles.

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