Jerry de Wilde’s gorgeous photography captures a deeply intimate portrait of a lost era—Los Angel...

Thirty years of photographs of murals of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the walls of Los Angeles, a p...

For more than a year, the mother-and-son team of author Frances Noble and photographer Ian Noble ...

Published in cooperation with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this collection of...

At last, the story of how Hollywood shaped a myth and determined a young woman's reality. A town,...

Bar Keeps: A Collection of California's Best Cocktail Napkins is a fun and fabulous tour through ...

The Sunset Strip, circa 1967. Buffalo Springfield called it right: 'There's something happening h...

Los Angeles lives largest in the world's imagination. It can be a projection, a solution, a tempo...

Judson: Innovation in Stained Glass

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For everyone who ever drove one, crammed into one, or plays Punch Buggy when one drives by, here ...

Also On View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles celebrates LA's most fascinati...

The fascinating story of people and mid-century modern architecture, merging and prevailing to cr...

Inside Rodeo Drive: The Stores, the Stars, the Story

Imagine Wilt Chamberlain mano a mano with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at The Forum. And Ben Hogan teeing ...

Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films presents an intimate look at the Chinese...

Architect John Parkinson died in 1935, and the Los Angeles Times praised him: 'Future generations...

In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartb...

Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling with the Stars

A delightful gallery of fascinating vintage photos depicting celebrations on Hollywood sets from ...

Best-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a c...

From immigrants to billionaires, unknowns to the world-famous, surfers to moviemakers, quacks to ...

Real News on real paper. Newspapers--a free press--were the cornerstone of the Founding Fathers' ...

The essential history of jazz emerges along with the history of Monterey Jazz -- the oldest ongoi...

Twentynine Palms is a compelling account of the devastating murder of two young girls by a troubl...

'Golf in Hollywood', the first in-depth look at golf and its influence in the film capital, is a ...

Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial History

Prohibition. Mobsters, murder, and mayhem. FBI agents. Cops, robbers, and worse. Sound like the b...

Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941

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Los Angeles Union Station-opened on May 7, 1939, after days of celebration-was the last great tra...

With more than 250 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise...

A beautiful, larger-sized book that provides fascinating insights into the inspiration of the art...

Beyond the Iconic: Contemporary Photographs of Paris, 1971-2003

SACRED MATERIAL details the historic saga of the creation of The Communion of Saints, The Baptism...

Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles

Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Clark Gable, Bogie and Bacall and ...

Ken Bernstein, a Principal City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for h...

CORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY. is the painstakingly researched account of one of Ameri...

No mountain range spans such diverse geological and cultural worlds as the magnificent Santa Moni...

California's Spanish Place Names: What They Mean and the History They Reveal

To some, Paul Conrad can best be described as a 'force of nature.' I Con, The Autobiography of Pa...

Until the late 1970s, Downtown Los Angeles was simply a relic to treasure, a symbol of suburban p...

Hollywood's Latin lovers are the screen's forbidden fruit, the antithesis of the all-American blo...

In the 1920s Southern California exploded as the greatest home-building region in the world. Beau...

Symphony in Steel: Walt Disney Concert Hall Goes Up

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