Metropolis in the Making

by Sitton, Tom; Deverell, William Francis

• ISBN13: 9780520226272
• ISBN10: 0520226275
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This book gathers original essays by the best young and established scholars of LA history, to present a new interpretation of LA in the 1920s, when it began to take shape as the vast sprawling city we know today.

Author Biography

Tom Sitton is Curator of History at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County William Deverell is Associate Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s	1	(10)
Jules Tygiel
PART ONE METROPOLITAN SPACES	11	(132)
Industry and Imaginative Geographics	13	(32)
Greg Hise
Mulholland Highway and the Engineering Culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s	45	(32)
Matthew W. Roth
The Quest for Independence: Workers in the Suburbs	77	(19)
Becky M. Nicolaides
Sunshine and the Open Shop: Ford and Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles	96	(27)
Mike Davis
``Another World'': Work, Home, and Autonomy in Blue-Collar Suburbs	123	(20)
Nancy Quam-Wickham
PART TWO METROPOLITAN IDENTITIES	143	(56)
The Star of Ethiopia and the NAACP: Pageantry, Politics, and the Los Angeles African American Community	145	(16)
Douglas Flamming
Making Mexico in Los Angeles	161	(18)
Douglas Monroy
The View from Spring Street: White-Collar Men in the City of Angels	179	(20)
Clark Davis
PART THREE FAITH IN THE METROPOLIS	199	(54)
``Practically Every Religion Being Represented''	201	(19)
Michael E. Engh
Fighting Like the Devil in the City of Angels: The Rise of Fundamentalist Charles E. Fuller	220	(33)
Philip Goff
PART FOUR METROPOLITICS	253	(86)
How Hollywood Became Hollywood: Money, Politics, and Movies	255	(22)
Steven J. Ross
My America or Yours? Americanization and the Battle for the Youth of Los Angeles	277	(25)
William Deverell
Did the Ruling Class Rule at City Hall in 1920s Los Angeles?	302	(17)
Tom Sitton
Behind the Scenes: Bronco Billy and the Realities of Work in Open Shop Hollywood	319	(20)
Laurie Pintar
PART FIVE THE END: METROPOLITAN FINALE	339	(22)
Selling Eternity in 1920s Los Angeles	341	(20)
David Charles Sloane
Contributors	361	(4)
Index	365