Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by Elsa Devienne
Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

Elsa Devienne

Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

Elsa Devienne

328 pages hardcover

1 edition

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Between the 1920s and the 1960s, LA's engineers, city officials, urban planners, and business elite worked together to transform the relatively untouched beaches into modern playgrounds for the white middle class. They cleaned up and enlarged the...

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