Los Angeles in the 1970s : weird scenes inside the gold mine / edited by David Kukoff.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st trade paperback original edition.
Published/​Created
  • Los Angeles, Calif : Rare Bird Books, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
346 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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    "With the tragic and bloody ending to the optimistic 1960s in Los Angeles's fabled hills, the 1970s became a defining decade in the city. Marked by the Manson murders, rampant inflation, and recession, the decade seemed to usher in a gritty and unsightly reality. The city of glitz and glamour overnight became the city of smog and traffic, a cultural and environmental wasteland. Los Angeles in the 1970s was a complex and complicated city with local cultural touchstones that rarely made it near the silver screen. In [this book], LA natives, transplants, and escapees talk about their personal lives intersecting with the city during a decade of struggle. From The Doors' John Densmore seeing the titular L.A. Woman on a billboard on Sunset, to Deanne Stillman's twisting path from Ohioan to New Yorker to finally finding her true home as an Angeleno, to Chip Jacobs' thrilling retelling of the "snake in the mailbox" attempted murder, to Anthony Davis recounting his time as "Notre Dame Killer" and USC football hero, these are stories of the real Los Angeles--families trying to survive the closing of factories, teens cruising Van Nuys Boulevard, the Chicano Moratorium that killed three protestors, the making of an adult film legend. [This book] is a love letter to the sprawling and complicated fabric of a Los Angeles often forgotten and mostly overlooked."--Back cover.
    Notes
    "A Barnacle Book".
    Contents
    • L.A. Woman redux / John Densmore
    • What needed screwing got screwed / Luis J. Rodriguez
    • Venice Bohemia : from Abbot Kinney to the Z-Boys / Joe Donnelly
    • Snake vs. Wolf / Chip Jacobs
    • March 1974 / Dana Johnson
    • From the desert to the sea : first encounters with Los Angeles / Deanne Stillman
    • Hamburgers, hemorrhages, and haute cuisine / Lynne Friedman
    • The making of a (tennis) player / Joel Drucker
    • Ritam Bhara Pragya / Howard Gewirtz
    • "Me? I've got a pilot." / Ken Levine
    • Shitty lead guitarist takes California by storm / Geza X
    • Merging worlds : Los Angeles, 1979 / Mitch Schneider
    • I was an illegal... / Jillian Franklyn
    • Bright lights, B-City / Bruce Ferber
    • Last button on the left : the late, great Z Channel / Matthew Specktor
    • Heart of dorkness : how Dr. Demento saved my bony, white ass / Michael Lazarou
    • For now / Lynell George
    • Borrowing sugar / Susan Hayden
    • It was fun while it lasted : Scientology, est, High Times, and higher learning at Uni High / David Kukoff
    • Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard / Rick McCloskey
    • The Notre Dame Killer / Anthony Davis and Jeremy Rosenberg
    • The day three Chicanos died / Del Zamora
    • Snapshots : seventies performance art in LA / Erica Lyons and Debra Wacks
    • Running for City Council in the 1970s / Joy Picus
    • Just an ordinary girl / Samantha Geimer
    • Johnny Wadd : origins / Bob Chinn
    • The Snake and Bake Murder / Steve Hodel
    • A few, mostly true, things about LA / Jim Natal
    • When reality was a joke : the making of Albert Brooks' Real Life (1979) / Tom Teicholz.
    Other title(s)
    1970
    ISBN
    • 9781942600718 ((paperback))
    • 1942600712 ((paperback))
    OCLC
    963249301
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