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
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
"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 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
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
With visual and narrative portraits of headline-grabbing criminal cases, this volume charts the first 150 years of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, from its beginnings as a one-man o
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
"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
