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Los Angeles in the 1970s : weird scenes inside the gold mine / edited by David Kukoff.
Format
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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Firestone Library - Stacks
F869.L857 L68 2016
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Subject(s)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
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History
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20th century
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Civilization
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20th century
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Social conditions
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Editor
Kukoff, David
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Summary note
"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.
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1970
ISBN
9781942600718 ((paperback))
1942600712 ((paperback))
OCLC
963249301
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