ENGLISH

Early Beverly Hills

By Marc , Wanamaker

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN
9781439614488, 1439614482
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
59 MB (62193733 bytes)
Series
Images of America; Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts
Pages
(128 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
etc. -- Pictorial works;California -- BeverlHistoric buildings--California--Beverly Hills;Motistructures

Description

Way before Rodeo Drive and the "pink palace" of the Beverly Hills Hotel were built, way before the namesake hillbillies, its zip code, and Eddie Murphy's detective techniques reaffirmed its place in popular culture, and way before its 1,001 mansions, Beverly Hills was comprised of wild canyons and ranchlands. Burton Green, one of the three original land developers of the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas, named this place of severe terrain after Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, a 19th-century spa. Since its establishment in 1907, Beverly Hills, California, has been a crossroads for the great movers and shakers of the entertainment industry as well as the tycoons, world leaders, and flotsam and jetsam magnetized by the limelight. The vintage photographs in this provocative volume illustrate Beverly Hills's early transition from cow pastures to Hollywood's extremely illustrious bedroom community.

Similar books