In Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, acclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie continues his...

Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles?explores how generations of Japanes...

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

w 35 famous couples met, courted, and decided to marry. From Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII ...

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

Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941

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 ...

Author and filmmaker Arthur Dong takes the reader on a guided tour of Chinese American film histo...

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

Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. A...

Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling with the Stars

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

Los Angeles Central Library: A History of Its Art and Architecture

Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends hi...

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...

Los Angeles City Hall

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

The Autograph Book of L.A.

Los Angeles Union Station

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 ...

Los Angeles has an image as the 'City of the Future'--a city always at the cutting edge of change...

As compelling as the story of the destruction of Bunker Hill is'€'with all the good intentions an...

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

What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine productio...

Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track

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