1930s
A01=Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
A24=David Kipen
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Author_Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
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california
california history
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBJK
Category=NHK
Category=WTH
charming
city life
COP=United States
crowded cities
Delivery_Pre-order
depression era
emma goldman
engaging
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eq_history
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Format=BC
Format_Paperback
great depression
guidebook
historical photos
history
illustrated
Language_English
local wobblies
mexican american war
PA=Temporarily unavailable
page turner
peace
period study
politics
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
realism
regional interest
retrospective
revolt
revolutionaries
roadside attractions
san diego history
second world war boom
sociology
softlaunch
spanish missions
state and local
tourism
travel
travelogue
united states
villages
war
yours
Product details
- ISBN 9780520275386
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 181g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2013
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"San Diego in the 1930s" offers a lively account of the city's culture, roadside attractions, and history - from the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom. The guide is revealing both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it records - tidbits such as the bloodiest and most incompetently fought battle of the Mexican-American War, Emma Goldman's abruptly terminated speech to local Wobblies in 1912, and even a delightfully anachronistic way to beat a San Diego speeding ticket. Brimming with tours that can prove challenging to retrace, this book reminds us of the changes wrought by seven decades of intervening war, peace, and biotechnology. Unlatching a remarkable trapdoor into the past, this compact and charming document of the Depression era invites repeated browsing and is generously illustrated with striking black-and-white photographs that bring the period to life.
The Federal Writers Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) not only provided jobs and income to writers during the Depression, it created for America an astounding series of detailed and richly evocative guides, recounting the stories and histories of the 48 states (plus THE Alaska Territory and Puerto Rico) and many of the country's major cities. David Kipen has written the introductions to reissues of the WPA guides to Los Angeles, San Francisco California. He is Southern California Public Radio's book correspondent, and the founder of a lending library/used book store east of Downtown Los Angeles called Libros Schmibros. Past book editor/critic of the San Francisco Chronicle and director of literature at the National Endowment for the Arts where he led the Big Read initiative Kipen is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History, and the translator of Cervantes' The Dialogue of the Dogs.
