Hollywood In Vintage Postcards

Author : Tommy Dangcil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781439613696

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Hollywood 1900-1950 in Vintage Postcards by Tommy Dangcil Pdf

With the advent of new, inexpensive photographic technology emerging in the United States during the mid-19th century, communication by postcard became a very popular way to exchange travel stories, news, and gossip over the decades. Drawing on a private collection of vintage postcards, this new book features a history of Hollywood, spanning half a century. Exploring Hollywood before and after it became the entertainment capital of the world, these images offer readers a glimpse of some of the city's most interesting places during its Golden Years. Long before motion pictures arrived, when the area was a residential neighborhood of beautiful homes and lemon groves, Hollywood was just another suburb of Los Angeles striving to become a community. From the familiar sights of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and the ChinesTheater, to the horse-and-buggy driven dirt roads and pineapple fields at the turn of the century, Hollywood in Vintage Postcards will guide the curious through the city's progress in the first half of the 20th century.

Author : Rod Kennedy,Elizabeth Ellis,Hollywood Heritage, Inc
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
ISBN : 1586851454

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Hollywood in Vintage Postcards by Rod Kennedy,Elizabeth Ellis,Hollywood Heritage, Inc Pdf

In those days the public wanted us to live like kings and queens. So we did . . . and why not? --Gloria Swanson

Author : Thomas Dangcil,Tommy Dangcil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 073852073X

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Hollywood, 1900-1950, in Vintage Postcards by Thomas Dangcil,Tommy Dangcil Pdf

With the advent of new, inexpensive photographic technology emerging in the United States during the mid-19th century, communication by postcard became a very popular way to exchange travel stories, news, and gossip over the decades. Drawing on a private collection of vintage postcards, this new book features a history of Hollywood, spanning half a century. Exploring Hollywood before and after it became the entertainment capital of the world, these images offer readers a glimpse of some of the city's most interesting places during its Golden Years. Long before motion pictures arrived, when the area was a residential neighborhood of beautiful homes and lemon groves, Hollywood was just another suburb of Los Angeles striving to become a community. From the familiar sights of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and the ChinesTheater, to the horse-and-buggy driven dirt roads and pineapple fields at the turn of the century, Hollywood in Vintage Postcards will guide the curious through the city's progress in the first half of the 20th century.

Author : Marc Wanamaker,Robert W. Nudelman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738547923

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Early Hollywood by Marc Wanamaker,Robert W. Nudelman Pdf

The image of Hollywood often translates as some otherworldly dreamscape filled with fantastic lives and fantasy fulfillment. The real deal was carved from the Southern California desert as an outpost northwest of Los Angeles. The movie industry arrived when tumbleweeds were not simply props and actual horsepower pulled the loads. Everyday workers, civic management, and Main Street conventionalities nurtured Hollywood's growth, as did a balmy climate that facilitated outdoor photography and shooting schedules for filmmakers. Splendid vintage photographs from the renowned collections of the Hollywood Heritage Museum and Bison Archives illustrate Hollywood's businesses, homes, and residents during the silent-film era and immediately after, as the Great Depression led up to World War II. These images celebrate Hollywood before and after its annexation into the city of Los Angeles in 1910 and its subsequent ascension as the world's greatest filmmaking center.

Author : Judy Artunian,Mike Oldham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0738529796

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Palm Springs in Vintage Postcards by Judy Artunian,Mike Oldham Pdf

Palm Springs has been a desert vacation oasis for nearly a century and remains the ultimate posh desert spa in pop culture. Film stars put Palm Springs on the map as a destination for weekend getaways. In the postwar era, it became a centerpiece for golfers and a second home for such Hollywood icons as Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Over the years, postcards portraying Palm Springs have concentrated on its hotels, spas, golf courses, celebrities, and other aspects that have fed the national reputation of the city and its environs as a playground for the rich and famous.

Author : C. Milton Hinshilwood,Elena Irish Zimmerman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439628003

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Old Los Angeles and Pasadena in Vintage Postcards by C. Milton Hinshilwood,Elena Irish Zimmerman Pdf

Covering the history and geography of Los Angeles and Pasadena between 1900 and 1950, the collection of over 200 vintage postcards compiled in this new volume offers a unique glimpse into turn-of-the-century southern California. As communication by postcards became popular in the late 19th century, those who received them were offered a rare view of the "right here, right now" aspect that only postcard photography could offer. From the earliest images of the Angels' Flight in Los Angeles, to the Tournament of Roses parades gliding down Colorado Street, the authors celebrate the history of these two beautiful cities through the personal medium of vintage postcards.

Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher : Photo Postcards from the Tom P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 185124378X

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Menswear by Tom Phillips Pdf

This series celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, 'ordinary' people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips's signature work, A Humument.With an illuminating foreword by Eric Musgrave, 'Menswear' presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to c. 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time. The rich variety of accessories on display includes ties, gloves, pocket squares, walking sticks, canes, boutonnières and spats.

Author : C. Milton Hinshilwood,Elena Irish Zimmerman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738508098

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Old Los Angeles and Pasadena in Vintage Postcards by C. Milton Hinshilwood,Elena Irish Zimmerman Pdf

Covering the history and geography of Los Angeles and Pasadena between 1900 and 1950, the collection of over 200 vintage postcards compiled in this new volume offers a unique glimpse into turn-of-the-century southern California. As communication by postcards became popular in the late 19th century, those who received them were offered a rare view of the "right here, right now" aspect that only postcard photography could offer. From the earliest images of the Angels' Flight in Los Angeles, to the Tournament of Roses parades gliding down Colorado Street, the authors celebrate the history of these two beautiful cities through the personal medium of vintage postcards.

Author : Carrie Fisher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849833653

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Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher Pdf

** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** ‘I don’t think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.’ Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope – and find work – back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. Ambitious, good-looking in a Heathcliffish way and in the grip of a monumental addiction, he makes Suzanne realize that, however eccentric her life might seem, there’s always someone who’s even closer to the edge of reason. Carrie Fisher’s bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywood – the home of success, sex and insecurity – and has become a beloved cult classic. ‘This novel, with its energy, bounce and generous delivery of a loud laugh on almost every page, stands as a declaration of war on two fronts: on normal and on unhappy’ STEPHEN FRY ‘A single woman’s answer to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn . . . the smart successor to Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays’ Los Angeles Times ‘A cult classic . . . A wonderfully funny, brash and biting novel’ Washington Post 'A wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life' People 'Searingly funny' Vogue

Author : Seth H. Bramson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467127226

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Broward County by Seth H. Bramson Pdf

Broward County came into existence on October 1, 1915, when Dade and Palm Beach Counties were partitioned to form a new county. Named for early-20th-century Florida governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, the county has grown to become renowned for nationally acclaimed restaurants, residential areas, colleges, universities, and shopping along Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. A major American metropolitan area, Broward County today is home to a branch of Florida International University, as well as the campuses of Nova Southeastern University, Broward College, and Florida Atlantic University. As of 2016, the population of Broward County was approximately 1.8 million people, making it Florida's second-most populous county and the 17th-most populous in the United States.

Author : Susan Gillis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 073851604X

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Fort Lauderdale in Vintage Postcards by Susan Gillis Pdf

Like many Sun Belt cities, Fort Lauderdale has experienced phenomenal growth over the past several decades. Once a wilderness home for the Seminole Indians and a few hardy pioneers, the small community grew up around Frank StranahanA[aa[s successful trading post, a convenient stop for hunters, fishermen, and sightseers preparing to head into the Everglades. But much more was in store for this rugged outback camp. Surveying Fort LauderdaleA[aa[s fascinating history chronologically, this pictorial retrospective begins with the 1890s, a time when this part of the country was still part of AmericaA[aa[s frontier, isolated and wild. With the coming of the railroad and the twentieth century, an agricultural economy developed, and, soon, the Florida land boom would bring thousands of new settlers to the area. Fort LauderdaleA[aa[s glistening beaches and comfortable climate earned the city an early reputation as a tourist town and, eventually, as a Spring Break mecca.

Author : Robin Chapman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738518329

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Winter Park in Vintage Postcards by Robin Chapman Pdf

"The perfume of the orange blossoms . . . the beauty of every scene, combine to make me wonder whether I am not in Paradise," wrote one visitor to Winter Park, Florida, in 1918. Just five miles north of Orlando, Winter Park's oak-lined brick streets and its quiet lakes have been attracting visitors since the late 19th century, when U.S. president Chester A. Arthur declared, "This is the prettiest spot I have seen in Florida." The New Englandlike city in the heart of the subtropics was once home to the Seminole Hotel, the largest resort south of Jacksonville. In 1885, prestigious Rollins College was founded here, the first institution of higher learning in Florida.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0971008078

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Reading Comics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joan Mickelson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786468805

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Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the City Beautiful by Joan Mickelson Pdf

Joseph W. Young, Jr., was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. From practically nothing in 1920 he created Hollywood By-the-Sea with an elegant Beaux Arts plan of circles and lakes, calling it a "City Beautiful," an ideal first propounded by Daniel Burnham of Chicago. Young had a rare talent for publicity and a knack for making and spending millions--supported by an immense personal charm that is still remembered decades after his death. This first full biography of Young covers his start as city builder in turn-of-the-century California where new cities blossomed and were ballyhooed, his move to Indianapolis, home of Carl Fisher who developed Miami Beach, his creation of Hollywood and Port Everglades, and his move to his Adirondack resort, ending with his dreams to expand Hollywood, fulfilled after his early death.

Author : Tommy Dangcil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738547085

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Hollywood Studios by Tommy Dangcil Pdf

Just after the turn of the 20th century, the motion picture industry moved to the West Coast, and the largest land of make-believe was created in Hollywood, California. From the silent-era beginnings of primitive, open-air stages to the fabled back lots of the studios' heyday, Hollywood Studios presents a bygone era of magical moviemaking in rare postcards. Assembled from the author's private collection, these images from the Chaplin Studios to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer depict an insider's look back at the dream factories known as the Hollywood studios.