Los Angeles in the 1970s : Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1942600712
ISBN-13
9781942600718
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Imprint
Rare Bird Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 15th, 2016
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
430 grams
Dimensions
14.30 x 21.50 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essays
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The 1970s were a heyday for Los Angeles. Hollywood was being revolutionized, the music business was booming, and authors like Joan Didion were producing great novels about the realities of living in the land of eternal sunshine. In Los Angeles in the 1970s great writers muse on the city in its classic decade. Featuring John Densmore on being a rock star, Matthew Specktor's reflections on The Z Channel, Deanne Stillman on the desert, and many, many more. This is an insider's look at what being an Angeleno was then and is now. Anyone with interest in the music industry or film industry of the 1970s will love Los Angeles in the 1970s. It will also appeal to anyone who loves the history of Laurel Canyon, reading about the ever-changing culture and landscape of Southern California, and those that just want to read new and established writers. Debra Wacks--the first all-women installation art piece in LA; Samantha Geimer--Roman Polanski; Dana Johnson--first hand encounter with the SLA house; Jeremy Rosenberg--Anthony Davis, the USC tailback that succeeded OJ Simpson; Jillian Franklyn--teenage promiscuity in the 1970s; Steve Hodel--1970s Hollywood Hills swing house turned kidnapping; Geza X--producing LA punk icons.
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 Los Angeles in the 1970s, 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, and Samantha Geimer discussing the timbre of Los Angeles in the time leading up to her assault at the hands of Roman Polanski, 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 a porn legend.
Los Angeles in the 1970s is a love letter to the sprawling and complicated fabric of a Los Angeles often forgotten and mostly overlooked. Welcome to the Gold Mine.
Los Angeles in the 1970s was a complex and complicated city with local cultural touchstones that rarely made it near the silver screen. In Los Angeles in the 1970s, 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, and Samantha Geimer discussing the timbre of Los Angeles in the time leading up to her assault at the hands of Roman Polanski, 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 a porn legend.
Los Angeles in the 1970s is a love letter to the sprawling and complicated fabric of a Los Angeles often forgotten and mostly overlooked. Welcome to the Gold Mine.
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