Bibliograph

Victorian Los Angeles, from Pio Pico to Angels Flight, Charles Epting

Type

Label

Victorian Los Angeles, from Pio Pico to Angels Flight, Charles Epting

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Victorian Los Angeles

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Charles Epting

Sub title

from Pio Pico to Angels Flight

Summary

Before the oil boom and rise of Hollywood brought today's renowned landmarks to downtown Los Angeles, an entirely different and often forgotten high Victorian city existed. Prior to Union Station, there was the impressive Romanesque Arcade Station of the Southern Pacific line in the 1880s. Before UCLA, the Gothic Revival State Normal School stood in place of today's Los Angeles Public Library. Elsewhere the city held Victorian pleasure gardens, amusement piers and even an ostrich farm, all lost to time and the rapid modernization of a new century. Local author Charles Epting reveals Los Angeles's unknown past at the turn of the twentieth century through the prominent citizens, events and major architectural styles that propelled the growth of a nascent city

Target audience

adult

Classification