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Brown Acres: An Intimate History of the Los Angeles Sewers
Contributor(s): Sklar, Anna (Author)

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 ISBN: 1883318750     ISBN-13: 9781883318758
Publisher: Angel City Press
OUR PRICE: $18.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: April 2008
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Annotation: With more than 250 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. Los Angeles was the subject of the longest, loudest, most persistent promotional campaign in the history of the United States. Nothing was too exaggerated, absurd, or flat-out bizarre to be fodder for the relentless effort to convince Americans to slam the door forever on their home and sally forth to what booster supreme G.W. Burton called "The fairest daughter among the sisterhood of cities in the world." This material that was meant to be cast away--ephemeral advertising and promotional pieces -- tells the complete story of how the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the railroads, the speculators, business moguls and the Automobile Club wooed the world west.
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | History
- Technology & Engineering | Environmental - Waste Management
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
Dewey: 363.728
LCCN: 2008006189
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.12" W x 9.02" L (0.82 lbs) 232 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Geographic Orientation - California
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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