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Paradise promoted : the booster campaign that created Los Angeles, 1870-1930
- Title
- Paradise promoted : the booster campaign that created Los Angeles, 1870-1930 / Tom Zimmerman ; design by Amy Inouye.
- Author
- Zimmerman, Tom.
- Publication
- Santa Monica, Calif. : Angel City Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- 207 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "With more than 500 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise promoted is the first book to showcase the era from 1870 to 1930 when boosters developed the small town of Los Angeles into the city that would become Americas most cutting-edge metropolis"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- City promotion > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century
- City promotion > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
- City promotion > United States > Case studies
- Cities and towns > United States > Growth > Case studies
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Economic conditions > 19th century
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Economic conditions > 20th century
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > Pictorial works
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206) and index.
- Contents
- A flower in the golden land of Los Angeles -- California south of Tehachapi -- A few nuts and how to crack them -- Where nature helps industry most -- Red cars of empire -- Movie studios -- Airplanes will take land values up -- Southern California all the year -- Don't come here looking for a job.
- Call Number
- IXH (Los Angeles) 09-7728
- ISBN
- 9781883318642 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1883318645 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007044790
- OCLC
- 182056626
- Author
- Zimmerman, Tom.
- Title
- Paradise promoted : the booster campaign that created Los Angeles, 1870-1930 / Tom Zimmerman ; design by Amy Inouye.
- Imprint
- Santa Monica, Calif. : Angel City Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IXH (Los Angeles) 09-7728