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Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers: Seven Decades of Diamond Dominance (Sports)
by Don LechmanThe Los Angeles Dodgers have always fielded one of the best pitching staffs in the Major Leagues. With Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, Fernando Valenzuela and Orel Hershiser and closers Mike Marshall and Eric Gagne, it's hard to imagine a more sterling roster. After their 1958 arrival from Brooklyn, the Dodgers won five World Series, competed in nine and made the playoffs in eleven other seasons--by leaning on their pitchers. The Dodgers have nine Cy Young Awards, more than any other franchise. In their fifty-three years in LA, the Dodgers have led the National League in team earned run average a staggering twenty times. Join author Don Lechman, a Los Angeles newspaperman for forty years, as he recounts the history of the team's aces.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
by Chris EptingOpened to the public in June of 1923, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum can arguably be called "America's Most Historic Sports Stadium." In 1984 the Memorial Coliseum was declared a State and Federal Historic Landmark for its contributions to both the State of California and the United States. The history of this institution is captured here in over 200 vintage images.The Memorial Coliseum's history spans eight decades, playing host to two Olympiads, two Super Bowls, one World Series, a multitude of concerts and political rallies, a Papal mass, and one of the most famous Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speeches of the 20th century by John F. Kennedy. Using photographs culled from its archives, pictured here are never-before-seen photographs of the Coliseum's construction; rare images of political and religious rallies held at the Stadium and the Los Angeles Sports Arena, and home to famous speeches by Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela; and a myriad of other sporting and entertainment events hosted by the Memorial Coliseum, including the Los Angeles Dodgers, motocross racing, and the Rolling Stones.
Los Angeles Railway (Past and Present)
by Steven J. Crise Michael A. Patris the Mount Lowe Preservation SocietyThe Los Angeles Railway's Yellow Cars, a system cobbled together from numerous horse-powered lines, cable car lines, and upstart narrow-gauge trolley companies, served downtown and its environs in some iteration from 1898 to 1963. Henry Huntington assembled this conglomerate, making it functionally effective and well patronized.
Los Angeles Residential Architecture: Modernism Meets Eclecticism
by Ruth WallachDuring the first half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles grew into a sprawling metropolis. As suburbs developed, demonstration homes and housing exhibitions brought innovative architectural and interior design styles. Displays like the California Home and Garden Exhibition showcased the latest in timesaving appliances, modern furniture and cutting-edge building techniques meant to represent the future and ideals of Southern California living. Model and tract home exhibitions like those at Leimert Park inspired a new generation of homebuyers. Designed to house the masses, multi-family developments like the Zigzag Moderne-style Val d'Amour were benchmarks for their time. Join author Ruth Wallach on a tour of the varied Modernist styles that give Los Angeles its distinct residential landscape.
Los Angeles Sports Memories (Sports)
by Doug KrikorianFor five decades, distinguished sportswriter Doug Krikorian chronicled LA's most transcendent sports moments. Revisit revered columns enshrining iconic achievements like when rookie Magic Johnson scored forty-two points and collected fifteen rebounds, leading the Lakers to the NBA title against the Philadelphia 76ers. Celebrate with the Angels all over again after their 2002 World Series victory. Reflect on momentous stories featuring Eric Dickerson, Wayne Gretzky, Muhammad Ali and many other illustrious personalities. From Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's fervent feud to Dodger Kirk Gibson's legendary game-winning 1988 World Series opener home run, relive the triumphs and tribulations of one of America's marquee sports towns.
Los Angeles Street Food: A History from Tamaleros to Taco Trucks (American Palate)
by Farley ElliottA history and guidebook for locals and visitors who want to explore the flavorful delights of the nation’s street food capital—includes photos!Los Angeles is the uncontested street food champion of the United States, and it isn’t even a fair fight. Millions of hungry locals and tourists take to the streets to eat tacos, down bacon-wrapped hot dogs, and indulge in the latest offerings from a fleet of gourmet food trucks and vendors. Dating back to the late nineteenth century when tamale men first hawked their fare from pushcarts and wagons, street food is now a billion-dollar industry in L.A.—and it isn’t going anywhere! So hit the streets and dig in with local food writer Farley Elliott, who tackles the sometimes-dicey subject of street food and serves up all there is to know about the greasy, cheesy, spicy, and everything in between.
Los Angeles Television
by Joel Tator The Museum of Broadcast CommunicationsLos Angeles television history began in the small room of an auto dealership in 1931. Since then, much of the nation's television history has been made here: the first television helicopter, the first big story that television broke before newspapers, the first live coverage of an atomic bomb, and the careers of numerous icons like Betty White, Steve Allen, Liberace, Lawrence Welk, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Many Los Angeles television personalities went on to network fame, including Tom Snyder, Tom Brokaw, Bryant Gumbel, Connie Chung, Maury Povich, Bob Barker, Bill Leyden, Ann Curry, Pat Sajak, and Regis Philbin. Readers will discover, in many untold stories, the origins of that curious building on top the Hollywood sign, Albert Einstein's must-see local program, Marilyn Monroe's video debut, a popular television star's last tragic performance, and the actual identities of legends Korla Pandit and Iron Eyes Cody. Also in these pages is the reveal of the Mystery Tower Sitter, the all-night amateur show, the big Las Vegas premiere telecast that was blown off the air, and the treasured performer who worked at one station for 65 years.
Los Angeles Underworld (Images of America)
by Avi Bash J. Michael Niotta PhDFrom the blackhanders and bootleggers of the early 20th century to political corruption and the rise and eventual toppling of a Mafia family, the history of organized crime in Los Angeles visually chronicled within this work possesses the same level of intrigue, glamour, and murder as the films that made the City of Angels iconic. Los Angeles Underworld showcases an extraordinary collection of rare and previously unpublished images pulled directly from family photo albums and top secret police files.
Los Angeles Wine: A History from the Mission Era to the Present
by Stuart Douglass BylesThe renowned California wine industry, famous for northern vintages, actually was born near El Pueblo de Los Angeles. Spanish missionaries harvested the first vintage in 1782 at Mission San Juan Capistrano and then cultivated enormous vineyards at Mission San Gabriel. Their replanted vine-cuttings took root on Jose Maria Verdugo's 1784 Spanish land grant in what became Glendale. Jean Louis Vignes brought a Bordeaux winemaking experience to LA in 1831 and initiated wine trade with San Francisco. By 1848, Los Angeles contained one hundred vineyards. Author Stuart Douglass Byles traces the little-known LA wine tradition through vintners of the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys, Anaheim and Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula Valley and Malibu and details the San Antonio Winery heritage, the last one standing from old Los Angeles days.
Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City
by Scott L. Bottles'This book provides a very good history of the Los Angeles experience. Urban sociologist, among others, will find it an important addition to their shelf on urban social change.' --James R. Hudson, Contemporary Sociology.
Los Angeles in the 1930s
by David KipenLos Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. It is also a compact coffee table book of dazzling monochrome photography. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A.'s past and continue to shape its future.
Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!
by Jim DawsonAn illustrated history of the iconic Hollywood neighborhood featured in numerous film noir classics—and the shadowy story of how it disappeared. When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways, and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already used its real-life mean streets to lend authenticity to his hardboiled detective stories featuring Philip Marlowe. But the biggest crime of all was going on behind the scenes, run by the city&’s power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson sheds new light on Los Angeles history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place.
Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz
by Sean J. O'ConnellFrom the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeles's rapidly expanding African American community inadvertently led to one of the most culturally rich avenues in the United States. From Downtown Los Angeles to the largely undeveloped city of Watts to the south, Central Avenue became the center of the West Coast jazz scene, nurturing homegrown talents like Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and Buddy Collette while also hosting countless touring jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday. Twenty-four hours a day, the sound of live jazz wafted out of nightclubs, restaurants, hotel lobbies, music schools, and anywhere else a jazz combo could squeeze in its instruments for nearly 50 years, helping to advance and define the sound of America's greatest musical contribution.
Los Angeles's Historic Ballparks (Images of America)
by Chris EptingBaseball's long and storied history in Los Angeles has been played at venues including the turn-of-the-century Chutes Park, which was part of an amusement park, as well as Gilmore Field, where the Hollywood Stars played, and Wrigley Field, where many movies and television shows were filmed. The 1923-vintage Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum became the Dodgers' first home in California in 1958, when they moved from Brooklyn. Greater Los Angeles also featured professional baseball at Olive Memorial Stadium in Burbank, Brookside Park in Pasadena, on Catalina Island, plus at numerous diamonds throughout Orange and Riverside Counties, where legends including Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and Connie Mack appeared. Most fans know Dodger Stadium and Angel Stadium, but many other historic ballparks existed in Southern California. Their images are collected together here for the first time.
Los Angeles's Little Tokyo (Images of America)
by Little Tokyo Historical SocietyIn 1884, a Japanese sailor named Hamanosuke Shigeta made his way to the eastern section of downtown Los Angeles and opened Little Tokyo's first business, an American-style café. By the early 20th century, this neighborhood on the banks of the Los Angeles River had developed into a vibrant community serving the burgeoning Japanese American population of Southern California. When Japanese Americans were forcibly removed to internment camps in 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States' entrance into World War II, Little Tokyo was rechristened "Bronzeville" as a newly established African American enclave popular for its jazz clubs and churches. Despite the War Relocation Authority's opposition to re-establishing Little Tokyo following the war, Japanese Americans gradually restored the strong ties evident today in 21st-century Little Tokyo--a multicultural, multigenerational community that is the largest Nihonmachi (Japantown) in the United States.
Los Angeles's The Palms Neighborhood
by George GarriguesThe Westside neighborhood of Palms is the oldest suburb of Los Angeles. Founded in 1886 halfway between L.A. and the beach on a steam railroad line, Palms attracted wealthy Angelinos escaping the summer's downtown heat as well as Easterners seeking a new life in "the natural home of the fig, olive, lemon, lime, apricot, and that class of fruit that brings the largest profit in the local market." Rancho Park and Mar Vista had yet to make it onto maps--it was all "The Palms." The school district stretched from the Santa Monica Mountains on the north toward Redondo Beach on the south. A lively social and business life sprang up, but gradually the metropolis enfolded Palms, which was annexed into Los Angeles in 1915. After World War II, subdivisions brought young families, the flatlands became a huge swath of apartments, and the barren hill area became the tree-shrouded Westside Village.
Los Angeles, California
by Jeffrey Samudio Portia LeeLos Angeles was founded in 1781 as one of the two original Spanish pueblos in California. At the time of statehood in 1851, Los Angeles began to reconsider its "cow town" condition, and gradually transformed an American city into the magnificent metropolis we know today. Drawn from the collections of the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the Los Angeles City Archives, Jeffrey Samudio and Portia Lee record the history of a community that established itself culturally as it grew exponentially. By 1945, the small town that had begun with 28 square miles in the late 19th century had grown to 450 square miles through almost 100 annexations. Businessmen constructed a downtown streetscape whose architecture elicited envy in other cities, hotels catered to visitors with such enthusiasm that guests eventually returned with ambitious schemes of their own, and the construction of an elaborate freeway system suddenly made Los Angeles a drive-in city.
Los Angeles: Biography of a City
by John Caughey Laree CaugheyLos Angeles, City of Angels. A city with a remarkable history, over 200 years old. Interwoven with the Caughey's commentary are over 100 of the choicest essays on Los Angeles. The saga of cowtown turned post-war metropolis unfolds before the reader.
Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill
by A. M. HomesThe surreal City of Angels is a unique amalgam of past and present, tradition and revolution, dreamscape and reality. Whether in history books or on the silver screen, the Los Angeles landscape has long served as an ever-shifting backdrop against which countless American anxieties and aspirations play out. New York-based novelist and short-story writer A. M. Homes distills the elusive, quixotic splendor of this most beguiling of great American cities. She checks us into the famed hotel Chateau Marmont and uses life at this iconic landmark as a multifaceted prism through which to view and experience Los Angeles culture, past and present.
Los Baldrich
by Use LahozUn relato agridulce de la España del último siglo que posee la maestría de las grandes sagas clásicas. Desde muy joven, Jenaro Baldrich tiene claros sus objetivos: formar una familia, fundar un negocio en la maltrecha Barcelona de posguerra y llegar lo más alto posible. Nada impedirá que se dedique a la conquista de sus ideales, aunque en el camino olvide el sueño de un clan unido y bien asentado. Esta es la crónica de una ambición, la historia de un hombre capaz de todo menos de traicionarse a sí mismo. El retrato certero de una familia acomodada en la que los hijos deberán huir de un hogar opresivo antes de que el noble apellido Baldrich acabe con ellos. La codicia y la incomunicación, pero también la generosidad, el amor y la lujuria dan cuerpo a esta fascinante novela de Use Lahoz. Reseñas:«Los Baldrich me ha devuelto la Barcelona de mi infancia, la de Rodoreda; un Madrid genuino y el gusto por la novela.»Luis Eduardo Aute «Me ha gustado sobremanera la novela Los Baldrich, retrato progresivo de Barcelona a través de una familia industrial y descompuesta.»Carlos Herrera, XL Semanal «Un estilo narrativo vivaz y con abundantes marcas que delatan la impregnación de García Márquez.»Ricardo Senabre, El Cultural «Algunas escenas de gran ambición literaria permanecen en la memoria del lector.»Manuel Longares«Lahoz demuestra una singular habilidad para narrar y un excelente manejo del lenguaje. Espero su próxima novela, pues aquí hay autor para rato.»Marta Rivera de la Cruz «Lahoz ha construido una novela en ocasiones realmente poderosa.»Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia «Hay recogida una materia narrativa de enorme interés por el choque que enfrenta la figura del padre autoritario y la necesidad que unos hijos van teniendo de construir su habitación propia, con deserciones y tragedias incluidas. Se lee bastante bien, atrapa la atención por algunas escenas celebradas por el lector como procedentes de un escritor con fuerza.»José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABCD
Los Borgia
by Mario PuzoLA PRIMERA GRAN FAMILIA DEL CRIMEN. UNA HISTORIA DE BRUTALIDAD Y TRAICIÓN. UN JUEGO CUYO PRECIO ES LA MUERTE. Del legendario autor de El Padrino llega una novela de la familia criminal italiana original, una historia de corrupción, traición, asesinatos, romance y, por supuesto... familia. Italia, siglo XV. El Renacimiento está en pleno apogeo, anunciando una nueva edad de oro en Europa. Pero donde hay oro, hay poder. Y hay quien está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para hacerse con él. Este es el mundo de Alejandro VI, el Papa Borgia, y su familia, que trama y conspira para sus propios fines. Esta es la historia de su lucha por mantener el control sobre Italia, de su ambición y sed de poder. Esta es la peligrosa vida de los Borgia, crueles y cautivadores, en la que sus enemigos más letales pueden estar mucho más cerca de lo que esperan.
Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821--1865 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Sean M. KelleyHistorians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the only slave society to take root under Mexican sovereignty -- made replication of eastern plantation culture extremely difficult and complicated. By tracing the synthesis of cultures, races, and politics in the region, Kelley reveals a distinct variant of southern slavery -- a borderland plantation society.Kelley opens by examining the four migration streams that defined the antebellum Brazos community: Anglo-Americans and their African American slaves who constituted the first two groups to immigrate; Germans who came after the Mexican government barred immigrants from the U.S. while encouraging those from Europe; and African-born slaves brought in through Cuba who ultimately made up the largest concentration of enslaved Africans in the antebellum South. Within this multicultural milieu, Kelley shows, the disparity between Mexican law and German practices complicated southern familial relationships and master-slave interaction. Though the Mexican policy on slavery was ambiguous, alternating between toleration and condemnation, Brazos slaves perceived the Rio Grande River as the boundary between white supremacy and racial egalitarianism. As a result, thousands fled across the border, further destabilizing the Brazos plantation society. In the1850s, nonslaveholding Germans also contributed to the upheaval by expressing a sense of ethnic solidarity in politics. In an attempt to undermine Anglo efforts to draw a sharp boundary between black and white, some Germans hid runaway slaves. Ultimately, Kelley demonstrates how the Civil War brought these issues to the fore, eroding the very foundations of Brazos plantation society. With Los Brazos de Dios, Kelley offers the first examination of Texas slavery as a borderland institution and reveals the difficulty with which southern plantation society was transplanted in the West.
Los Casos de Axel: El Robo del Siglo
by Jerry BaderEl investigador privado Axel Webb es contratado para recuperar los objetos perdidos del robo de Pakal en 1984 en el Museo de Arqueología de Ciudad de México. El caso se pone feo cuando su cliente es asesinado. El Robo del Siglo En la Nochebuena de 1984, dos estudiantes de veterinaria mexicanos que habían abandonado la carrera irrumpieron en el Museo Nacional del Antropología. Robaron más de cien antiguos tesoros mayas hallados en la tumba de K'inich Janaab' Pakal, un descubrimiento que rivaliza con Tutankamón en belleza, riqueza y significado cultural. El robo se conoció como El Robo del Siglo. La incompetencia y la corrupción de las autoridades hicieron que el caso se enfriara. El Museo ni siquiera sabía cuántos artefactos habían sido robados. Cuatro años más tarde, la detención de un narcotraficante de Acapulco lleva a la policía a arrestar a varios sospechosos, entre ellos uno de los ladrones. La mayoría de las reliquias fueron recuperadas, pero no todas. Se cree que el segundo ladrón, que desapareció poco después del robo, escapó con los tesoros restantes. Durante cuarenta años, no se descubrió nada nuevo sobre el segundo ladrón ni sobre las reliquias desaparecidas del rey Pakal. Hasta que Gabriela Flores, una escritora mexicana que vive en Toronto, presenta un libro sobre la civilización maya a un agente literario local, Anthony Brizzi. En su reunión con Brizzi, Gabriela se fija en un expositor de cristal que alberga lo que Gabriela cree que son algunos de los objetos desaparecidos del robo de Pakal. Gabriela es sobrina del exsubinspector de la Policía Federal Benito Pérez, amigo del investigador privado de Toronto Axel Webb. Gabriela contrata a Axel con la ayuda de su tío para descubrir si los objetos de la vitrina del agente literario son los tesoros mayas desaparecidos. Antes de que Axel pueda siquiera empezar, el agente literario es asesinado. Y los objetos de la vitrina de cristal desapare
Los Chicos Fantasmas (Ghost Boys Spanish Edition)
by Jewell Parker Rhodes"MOMENTO DE DESPERTAR".ME VOLTEO. ¿QUIÉN DIJO ESO? AL OTRO LADO DE LA CALLE, LO VEO. TENUE COMO LA LLOVIZNA. ¿UN FANTASMA?¿COMO YO? Jerome, de doce años, es la más reciente víctima, asesinada por un policía blanco que confunde su pistola de juguete con una amenaza. Como fantasma, él observa la devastación que se ha desatado en su familia y comunidad a raíz de lo que ven como un asesinato injusto y brutal. Una vez más, Jewell Parker Rhodes entrelaza hábilmente capas históricas y sociopolíticas en una historia apasionante y conmovedora sobre cómo los niños y las familias enfrentan las complejidades del mundo actual. &“TIME TO WAKE UP.&”I SPIN AROUND. WHO SAID THAT? ACROSS THE STREET, I SEE HIM. WISPY LIKE SOFT RAIN. A GHOST? LIKE ME?Twelve-year-old Jerome is the latest victim, shot by a white police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that&’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and sociopolitical layers into a gripping and poignant story
Los Cinco de la Tarjeta Verde: Se atrevieron a desafiar a la NBA.
by Marjan Crnogaj Rytis Sabas Duško MiletkovićDurante las últimas décadas del siglo XX, un grupo de personas del baloncesto (jugadores, entrenadores, ejecutivos, cazatalentos y agentes) participó en una de las transferencias de capital humano y conocimiento más extraordinarias en la historia del deporte. Este fenómeno llevó a la fusión de dos esferas del baloncesto completamente separadas, una en los Estados Unidos y la otra principalmente en Europa del Este, en un todo único e integrado. La nueva legislación de la FIBA de principios de abril de 1989 permitió a los jugadores de la NBA competir para sus equipos nacionales, lo que de repente "abrió una ventana" a los principales ases internacionales como Dražen Petrović, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Vlade Divac, Alexander Volkov y Žarko Paspalj. Fue la NBA la que con entusiasmo "abrió la puerta" a este grupo único de jugadores, brindándoles una oportunidad única en la vida de ganarse la vida en los Estados Unidos demostrando sus cualidades en batallas definitivas de baloncesto contra la flor y nata de la cosecha. de los jugadores de baloncesto del mundo. Este grupo, apodado 'Los Cinco de la Tarjeta Verde' por el legendario columnista deportivo de Sports Illustrated Jack McCallum, no sólo demostró su clase bajo el constante escrutinio de los ejecutivos de la NBA, sino que mantuvo su deseo y compromiso, allanando el camino para todos los futuros jugadores europeos de la NBA.