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Los Angeles in the 1920s

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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
371

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Subjects
Social conditions, City planning, Economic conditions, Nineteen twenties, History, City planning, united states, Los angeles (calif.), history, Los angeles (calif.), social conditions
Places
Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles
Times
20th century

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / ix
PREFACE / Xi
Introduction
Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920o
Jules Tygiel / i
PART ONE * METROPOLITAN SPACES / II
1. Industry and Imaginative Geographies
Greg Hise / 13
2. Mulholland Highway and the Engineering
Culture of Los Angeles in the 192os
Matthew W Roth / 45
3. The Quest for Independence: Workers in the Suburbs
Becky M. Nicolaides / 77
4. Sunshine and the Open Shop: Ford and
Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles
Mike Davis / 96
5. "Another World": Work, Home, and
Autonomy in Blue-Collar Suburbs
Nancy Quam-Wickham / i23
PART TWO * METROPOLITAN IDENTITIES / 143
6. The Star of Ethiopia and the NAACP,
Pageantry, Politics, and the Los Angeles
African American Community
Douglas lamming / 145
7. Making Mexico in Los Angeles
Douglas Monroy / I61
8. The View from Spring Street:
White-Collar Men in the City of Angels
Clark Davis / 179
PART THREE * FAITH IN THE METROPOLIS / 199
9. "Practically Every Religion Being Represented"
Michael E. Engh, S.J. / 201
10. Fighting Like the Devil in the City of Angels:
The Rise of Fundamentalist Charles E. Fuller
Philip Goff / 220
PART FOUR* METROPOLITICS / 253
11. How Hollywood Became Hollywood:
Money, Politics, and Movies
Steven j Ross / 255
12. My America or Yours? Americanization and
the Battle for the Youth of Los Angeles
William Deverell / 277
13. Did the Ruling Class Rule at City Hall in 192os Los Angeles?
Tom Sitton / 302
14. Behind the Scenes: Bronco Billy and the Realities
of Work in Open Shop Hollywood
Laurie Pintar / 319
PART FIVE * THE END: METROPOLITAN FINALE / 339
15. Selling Eternity in 1920s Los Angeles
David Charles Sloane / 341
CONTRIBUTORS / 36I
INDEX / 365.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
979.4/94052
Library of Congress
F869.L857 M48 2001, F869.L857M48 2001

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Pagination
xii, 371 p. :
Number of pages
371

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6792529M
Internet Archive
metropolisinmaki0000unse
ISBN 10
0520226267, 0520226275
LCCN
00057715
OCLC/WorldCat
44818704
Goodreads
3592352
346616

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