Astonishing images of vanished Los Angeles, from the landmark
Ambassador Hotel to the original life-sustaining Zanja Madre Los
Angeles is less than 150 years old, yet in that short time a great
deal has been built and torn down. Like most cities it has suffered
the loss of classic old cinemas, Victorian hotels, and grand
railroad stations, but L.A. has also seen the passing of major
industries, film companies, film lots, hills, airfields, piers, and
a speedway. Citrus groves have come and gone, oil derricks have
sprung up in their place and been replaced by housing tracts. The
movie industry moved in from New York and Chicago, expanded,
contracted, and then sold off their lots. National radio stations
built, then soon vacated, grand art decos studios around Sunset
& Vine. Abbot Kinney's vision of a Venetian suburb was largely
filled in after the banks eroded. This book displays an
extraordinary variety of lost glories from this unique city: Barker
Brothers, Beverly Hills Speedway, Bradbury Residence, Casa Don
Vincente Lugo, Chaplin Airfield, the community in Chavez Ravine,
Church of the Open Door, The City of Los Angeles train, County
Records Building, Court Flight, the Egyptian marquee, Eternity
Street, Fort Moore Hill, Grand Central Air Terminal, Helms and Van
de Kamp bakeries, La Grande Station, the MGM backlots, Mount Lowe
Railway, Pan Pacific Stadium, Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace,
Richfield Oil Building, Sears, the Temple Block, Theme Building at
LAX, and Wrigley Field.
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