Wilshire Boulevard is the unofficial Main Street of dreams that flows through Los Angeles history. Like Los Angeles itself, Wilshire is an accidental phenomenon created out of civic pride and the yearning of the masses to drive. Its 15-mile route to the sea has been called the Fifth Avenue of the West and the Champs Elysees of the Pacific. Wilshire's style, architecture and historic prominence are recorded in more than 150 photos, so readers understand the fascinating cultural geography of the first auto-dependent ...
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Wilshire Boulevard is the unofficial Main Street of dreams that flows through Los Angeles history. Like Los Angeles itself, Wilshire is an accidental phenomenon created out of civic pride and the yearning of the masses to drive. Its 15-mile route to the sea has been called the Fifth Avenue of the West and the Champs Elysees of the Pacific. Wilshire's style, architecture and historic prominence are recorded in more than 150 photos, so readers understand the fascinating cultural geography of the first auto-dependent metropolis. Wilshire Boulevard details the thoroughfare's crucial part in the emergence of Los Angeles as a world city and relates the fascinating story of Gaylord Wilshire, the turn-of-the-century social gadfly who never experienced his namesake's enduring fame. Kevin Roderick is a journalist, editor, blogger and author living in Los Angeles. He is the creator and publisher of LA Observed, a widely cited news website that Forbes rated as Best of the Web. He is a Contributing Writer on politics and media at Los Angeles magazine, an award-winning radio commentator, and is often asked by the media to talk about Southern California issues. In addition to Los Angeles, Kevin's magazine reporting has appeared in Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Industry Standard, C, L.A. Architect and the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. His latest book, Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and Editor's Choice, as well as a finalist for the Southern California Book Award.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Book still in the original plastic-soooo-it's New or like New. marred only by a tiny "nick" to the lower back edge of the book seemingly down to book. Maybe its a First Edition? ?
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by both authors. Minimal wear. Pages are clean. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1883318556. SIGNED on title page by both authors, Kevin Roderick and J. Eric Lynxwiler, not on a bookplate, but directly on the page (without any inscriptions to anyone); Tight, clean and crisp. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. An excellent copy with price clipped dustjacket now protected in a new Mylar cover.; 1 x 9.1 x 9.1 Inches; 208 pages; Signed by All Authors.
