"From immigrants to billionaires, unknowns to the world-famous, surfers to moviemakers, quacks to rocket scientists--Dreamers are attracted to Harry Chandler's Dream City. Los Angeles and the metropol
The Santa Monica Mountains is the only range that transverses a major metropolitan city in North America, slicing Los Angeles and defining it, shaping its hills and its valleys, its canyons and its oc
Los Angeles lives largest in the world’s imagination. It can be a projection, a solution, a temporary fix, a long-term goal. For Lynell George—and millions of others—it’s simply home.After/Image: Los
It's 1912 in Hollywood, the birth of the Movies, and Mabel Normand, the talented prototype of the contemporary comedienne, is shocking the world. Mabel Normand -- the visionary who turned Charlie Chap
The orange and California have romanced each other for what seems like forever. Cloaked in mystery and available only to the elite until modern times, the orange has been known as the fruit of the god
"Hollywood Rides a Bike shows classic stars--from Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, and Brigitte Bardot to Bogie, Gable, and Bing--on wheels, then proves there's way less than six degrees of separation be
Wilshire Boulevard is the unofficial Main Street of dreams that flows through Los Angeles history. Like Los Angeles itself, Wilshire is an accidental phenomenon created out of civic pride and the year
Prohibition. Mobsters, murder, and mayhem. FBI agents. Cops, robbers, and worse. Sound like the background for a Hollywood epic? It's Ernest Marquez's latest very true story of the renowned gambling s
"For more than a year, the mother-and-son team of author Frances Noble and photographer Ian Noble walked and drove the streets and traversed the parks and beaches of Santa Monica to interview and phot
"The Santa Monica Pier has summoned the imagination of the world for a century. Vintage images, colorful artwork, fascinating history and treasured lore invites anyone who has ever enjoyed the Pier to
"1920s Southern California was the greatest home-building region in the world. Beaux-Arts trained architect Gerard Colcord flourished there, creating 400 estates between 1924 and 1984. Bret Parsons cu
This book documents an important milestone in American cultural history, the birth of the animated holiday special-Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carolaaa-and it's unsung creator, Lee Orgel. It tells the sto
"Twentynine Palms is a compelling account of the devastating murder of two young girls by a troubled Marine in a rural California desert town. More than just a murder-mystery, it is a passionate disse
"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 to
"With more than fifty photographs, diagrams and maps, Brown Acres is the first historical narrative to detail any world-class city's sewer system--complete with the relationship between headstrong pol
"Now Playing is a magnificently illustrated book that opens a door to another time. Dramatic artwork and detailed text tell the groundbreaking story of hand-painted movie posters commissioned by the n
