Sacred Sites
Title | Sacred Sites PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Suntree |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0803231989 |
"Sacred Sites honors the power and beauty of our indigenous heritage and homeland. By knowing our history we better understand the present and our journey into the future."---Anthony Morales, tribal chair, Gabrielino Tongva Council of San Gabriel --
Secret Southern California
Title | Secret Southern California PDF eBook |
Author | Kathy Strong |
Publisher | Bookbaby |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-06-24 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9781543966299 |
"Secret Southern California was written for all adventurers, from both far and near, who seek truly unique and authentic getaways"--Cover page
Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Title | Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Carlson |
Publisher | Reedy Press LLC |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2021-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 168106331X |
How do you step into a live fairytale with aerial dancers, opera singers, and a huge rabbit? Where can you walk on a beach covered with broken pottery? What is the Institute for Abnormal Arts? Who will show you evidence Bigfoot is real? Find the answers to these questions and many more in Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. This is a book for travelers who love to meet quirky characters, discover oddities, and experience littleknown aspects of the Golden State. Learn the fascinating tales behind all the points of interest and discover some new places to look for adventure. Learn where to spend a night in a museum, explore an underground city, and watch silent movies in the same theater where Charlie Chaplin premiered The Tramp. Find out about the country’s only perfume museum, how a wall became covered in frogs, and why a colorful garden will not grow. Whether it’s an ancient society’s crypt or the second city underneath the capital, this guide leaves no stone unturned. Author Ruth Carlson uses her years of experience as a Californian to fill you in on the hilarious, the bizarre, and the beautiful in this unusual guidebook so you can experience the hidden treasures locals would like to keep to themselves—if only they knew about them!
Secret Stairs
Title | Secret Stairs PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Fleming |
Publisher | Santa Monica Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1595809414 |
Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena to walking the Sunset Junction Loop in Silver Lake, to taking the Beachwood Canyon hike through “Hollywoodland” to enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, Secret Stairs takes you on a tour of the staircases all across the City of Angels. The circular walks, rated for duration and difficulty, deliver tales of historic homes and their fascinating inhabitants, bits of unusual local trivia, and stories of the neighborhoods surrounding the stairs. That’s where William Faulkner was living when he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not; that house was designed by Neutra; over there is a Schindler; that’s where Woody Guthrie lived, where Anais Nin died, and where Thelma Todd was murdered . . . Despite the fact that one of these staircases starred in an Oscar-winning short film—Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box, from 1932—these civic treasures have been virtually unknown to most of the city’s residents and visitors. Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.
The Secret History of Southern California
Title | The Secret History of Southern California PDF eBook |
Author | Abe Hoffman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2003-07-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780757505720 |
Hidden Southern California
Title | Hidden Southern California PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Riegert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9781569751305 |
From cruising Hollywood and Santa Monica to sailing to Catalina Island to sweeping out to the Mojave Desert while uncovering Palm Springs hideaways, this shows travelers to the southern part of the Golden State how to really enjoy themselves. 10 illustrations 21 maps.
Blue Sky Metropolis
Title | Blue Sky Metropolis PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Westwick |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-06-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520289064 |
"Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation