Author : Mary Ann Bonino
Publisher : MaryAnn Bonino
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0981642209
The Doheny Mansion
Mary Ann Bonino
The Doheny Mansion
The Doheny Mansion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Doheny Mansion book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Ghosts of Greystone
Clete Keith
Author : Clete Keith
Publisher : Linseed Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN : 1733155902
Ghosts of Greystone by Clete Keith Pdf
Trousdale Estates
Steven M. Price
Author : Steven M. Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781941393970
Trousdale Estates by Steven M. Price Pdf
Filled with beautiful, vivid photographs, Trousdale is the definitive history of the architecture and design that defined both Beverly Hills and the ultimate American Dream. Trousdale Estates is a 410-acre enclave of large, luxurious homes in Beverly Hills, California. Primarily developed in the 1950s and ’60s, it quickly became famous for its concentration of celebrity residents and the unrestrained extravagance of its midcentury modern architecture. Often working with unlimited budgets, these designers created sprawling, elegant backdrops for the ultimate expression of the American Dream in the mid-to-late twentieth century. In Trousdale, Price explores the architectural backgrounds, details, and floor plans of the amazing homes, giving readers an inside view of the world-famous Beverly Hills style. Lavish new photography is interspersed with archival and historic images, illustrating the glamour of Trousdale both then and now. Some of the architects of Trousdale include Lloyd Wright, Wallace Neff, Paul R. Williams, Harold Levitt, and A. Quincy Jones.
University Park, Los Angeles
Charles Epting
Author : Charles Epting
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625840288
University Park, Los Angeles by Charles Epting Pdf
University Park is one of Los Angeles's most diverse and historic neighborhoods. Beginning with the founding of the University of Southern California in 1880, the area has hosted two Olympic Games and numerous presidents and been featured as a backdrop for dozens of movies, along with countless other events of cultural and historical significance. Few areas in Southern California boast such a wide variety of historic buildings--residential, educational and commercial--dating to LA's earliest days. With USC as its anchor, University Park thrives as a microcosm of LA's culture, architecture and development from an outpost accumulating settlers into one of the world's great cosmopolitan metropolises. Join author Charles Epting on this historical inventory of University Park's significant moments and lasting legacy.
Chronicles of Old Los Angeles
James Roman
Author : James Roman
Publisher : Museyon
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938450761
Chronicles of Old Los Angeles by James Roman Pdf
There's more to Los Angeles than lights, camera, action! From the city's early, devilish days populated by missionaries, robber barons, oil wells and orange groves, Chronicles of Old Los Angeles explains how the Wild West became the Left Coast. Learn how Alta California became the 31st state, and how ethnic waves built Los Angeles—from Native Americans to Spaniards, Latinos and Asians, followed by gangsters, surfers, architects and the Hollywood pioneers who brought fame to the City of the Angels. Then, discover the city yourself with six guided walking/driving tours of LA's historic neighborhoods, profusely illustrated with color photographs and period maps.
Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide
Richard Alleman
Author : Richard Alleman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780804137775
Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide by Richard Alleman Pdf
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including: Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity...the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard...the exotic Frank Lloyd Wright mansion that's housed everyone from Harrison Ford in Blade Runner to David Boreanaz on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer....the landmark Art Deco former department store that has doubled for a glamorous hotel in Topper (1936) and an elegant nightclub in The Aviator (2004)... the Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street houses... the Seinfeld and Alias apartment buildings... the Six Feet Under funeral home...The Brady Bunch and Happy Days houses...the Charlie's Angels office...the real Melrose Place...and many more VIP tours: from legendary studios like Warner Bros., MGM (now Sony Pictures), and Universal to movie-star homes like Barbra Streisand's former Malibu compound… Crime scenes and scandal spots: the driveway where Sal Mineo was murdered, the Nicole Brown Simpson condo, the Sharon Tate estate, Marilyn Monroe's last address, the Beverly Hills Mansion where Bugsy Siegal was rubbed out…the Hollywood hotel where Janice Joplin O.D.’d… Plus: Remarkable new museums...Superstar cemeteries...Historic hotels...Hip clubs and restaurants....Fabulous restored movie palaces… Spectacular movie star mansions and château apartments… Taking movie lovers behind the gates of the exclusive, often hidden world of Tinsel Town, Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to L.A.'s reel attractions.
Passport to the Paranormal
Rich Newman
Author : Rich Newman
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738767741
Passport to the Paranormal by Rich Newman Pdf
Real American Hot Spots Every state has its spooky paranormal locations. This book lists 200 haunted hotels, restaurants, bars, museums, and other haunted spaces that you can visit for yourself in all fifty states. In Passport to the Paranormal, expert ghost hunter Rich Newman explores the nature of each location's activity and provides historical details. You also will find photos that help bring the stories alive. These active locations are operating businesses, so you, too, can experience the haunts and apparitions. Gallivant with ghostly gunfighters at Big Nose Kate's Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. Take a twirl with the Lady in Blue at the Moss Beach Distillery in California. Try not to get pranked by the Sheriff, the resident spirit at the Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina. Discover these and hundreds more stories of hauntings, specters, and things that go bump in the night in this treasure trove of real paranormal activity.
Real Lace Revisited
James P. MacGuire
Author : James P. MacGuire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493024926
Real Lace Revisited by James P. MacGuire Pdf
Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birmingham's much-loved Real Lace. James P. MacGuire, a member of one of Birmingham's Irish Families, creates his own entertaining portrait of life among the Irish Rich, further detailing and filling out this engrossing portion of America's social history. Real Lace Revisited chronicles the religious, financial and social evolution of the First Irish Families’ world, its rise, peak, decline, fall, and, in some cases, transformative rebirth. Rather than a memoir, however, the book reads as an informed historical, non-fiction account of the upper-class Irish world as it grew and changed. Real Lace Revisited is always accessible and highly readable, enlivened by MacGuire’s gift for storytelling, encyclopedic knowledge, and often humorous insight into the families concerned.
Dark Side of Fortune
Margaret Leslie Davis
Author : Margaret Leslie Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520229099
Dark Side of Fortune by Margaret Leslie Davis Pdf
Doheny built was one of the early oil barons in Mexico and the United States before becoming embroiled in the Teapot Dome scandal.
Los Angeles's Chester Place
Don Sloper
Author : Don Sloper
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738546879
Los Angeles's Chester Place by Don Sloper Pdf
Hidden behind massive 120-year-old gates a few blocks south of downtown Los Angeles is Chester Place, the oldest gated community in the city. Created as an enclave of the wealthy and powerful in 1899, the remarkably intact stately mansions of this historic neighborhood were once home to the movers and shakers of politics, industry, and entertainment. Beside century-old palm trees, the former mansion of oil-industry pioneer Edward Doheny stands as the centerpiece of the neighborhood at No. 8 Chester Place, which was purchased in 1901. His family dominated the neighborhood for the next 57 years. Located side by side with St. James Park in what is today called the West Adams District at the northern extents of University Park, containing the University of Southern California, Chester Place has been home to the campus of Mount St. Mary's College for a generation.
What America Watched
Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser
Author : Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476644653
What America Watched by Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser Pdf
Although television critics have often differed with the public with respect to the artistic and cultural merits of television programming, over the last half-century television has indubitably influenced popular culture and vice versa. No matter what reasons are cited--the characters, the actors, the plots, the music--television shows that were beloved by audiences in their time remain fondly remembered. This study covers the classic period of popular television shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, focusing on how regular viewers interacted with television shows on a personal level. Bridging popular and scholarly approaches, this book discovers what America actually watched and why through documents, footage, visits to filming locations, newspapers, and magazine articles from the shows' eras. The book features extensive notes and bibliography.
Haunted Route 66
Richard Southall
Author : Richard Southall
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738731643
Haunted Route 66 by Richard Southall Pdf
Pack your bags, hop in the car, and head out on a haunted adventure across legendary Route 66 Embrace the spirit of adventure and freedom with an exciting journey of spine-tingling paranormal activity and American history along Route 66. This travel companion transports you from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, exploring over one hundred ghostly hot spots filled with fascinating facts and lingering spirits. From ghost hunters to avid fans of the Mother Road, everyone can take their own haunted road trip on Route 66 with this essential, easy-to-read guide. Explore the famous highway through historic locations and gripping ghost stories about the St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago, the restless spirit of Charlie Chaplin that still haunts the Venice Beach Boardwalk in Los Angeles, and many more. This one-of-a-kind collection, with chapters organized by state, paves the way for your grand tour into the unknown.
Ghosts of Greystone - Beverly Hills
Clete Keith
Author : Clete Keith
Publisher : Linseed Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781733155922
Ghosts of Greystone - Beverly Hills by Clete Keith Pdf
Clete Keith's Ghosts of Greystone – Beverly Hills is not just a book of 237 ghost stories, but a landmark exposé of eyewitness accounts detailing paranormal activity associated with this extraordinary location. Clete Keith spent three years interviewing and researching the supernatural activity at the estate. With 86 interviews, Ghosts of Greystone - Beverly Hills promises you riveting history and ghostly encounters associated with this extraordinary location. “Ghosts of Greystone – Beverly Hills is a terrific read. Incredibly well written and researched account of one of the most haunted buildings in Hollywood history. Clete is now clearly the most knowledgeable expert on this building's dark history as well as its stunning beauty. A must read if you love great ghost tales.” —Patty Jenkins, Motion Picture Director, Wonder Woman 1984, Wonder Woman, Monster.
Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings
Marie D. Jones
Author : Marie D. Jones
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578597017
Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings by Marie D. Jones Pdf
Rich. Famous. Glamorous. Dead ... and Immortal! From old Hollywood silent film stars to rock stars to athletes, past presidents, and famous generals, celebrated individuals sometimes become celebrity ghosts, and they haunt their homes, workplaces, and even burial places. In turn, those places become famous, even notorious, thanks to the ghost that is haunting it! Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings looks at many famous ghosts—dead celebrities that haunt old Hollywood locales, famous generals that appear to witnesses at great battlefields, and noted politicians that roam the hallways of courthouses, statehouses, and even the White House! Plus, this fascinating frightfest examines the famous haunted locations themselves, such as the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Hotel del Coronado, Gettysburg, the Stanley Hotel (which inspired Stephen King’s The Shining) and so many others that claim the supernatural as part of their heritage and history. This riveting look at the unexplained also investigates movie lore, including the unsettling incidents on the Amityville Horror set; “The Dark Knight” curse that includes on-set accidents from the horrible death of Heath Ledger, who played the Joker, to the mass shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises; the deaths and curse surrounding The Matrix; the Infamous Stage 28 at Universal Studios; and Paramount Studios’ long history of hauntings and strange goings-on. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and Hank Williams. Presidents John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and Harry Truman. Henry VIII, beheaded Sir Walter Raleigh, and Prince Edward V. Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Marilyn Monroe, and “Superman” actor George Reeves. Houdini, Redd Foxx, Liberace, and serial-killer Ted Bundy. They all lurk in this riveting book. Haunted graveyards (of course), haunted historical landmarks and battlefields, plus haunted libraries, courthouses, ships, submarines, lighthouses, hotels, roadways, byways, bridges, prisons, and hospitals are all gathered together in this comprehensive look at the ghastly afterlife of the renowned. From famous faces to famous places, if it involves fame and celebrity, fortune and notoriety, legend and lore, Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings covers it.
Haunted
Brad Steiger
Author : Brad Steiger
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578596843
Haunted by Brad Steiger Pdf
Chronicles the lives transformed by encounters with the ghosts and supernatural hauntings through disquieting testimonials, enlightening research, and informative historical accounts. Bringing forth the spirits, touching on near-death experiences and parallel universes, and presenting the full range of ghostly manifestations, Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms pulls back the curtains on the hidden and frightening world of supernatural spirits, malevolent phantoms, menacing beings, paranormal encounters, spectral apparitions, threatening poltergeists, and sinister hauntings. Thrown into the middle of the action, master storyteller, Brad Steiger shares true accounts of ghostly encounters in the ancient world; horrors and hauntings in the forests and fields; possessed houses and homes; night terrors, poltergeists, and malevolent spirits; speaking to spirits; near-death experiences and out-of-body visits; visitations from dead loved ones; and much, much more. Nearly 300 hair-raising tales found everywhere, including ... The devil rider of Chisholm Hollow The ghosts of Sandy’s Restaurant, Ventura, CA The exorcism of Joan Crawford’s former house A ghostly encounter at Beverly Hill’s Greystone Mansion How to identify a poltergeist Shamanic spirit guides The medium Daniel Dunglas’s Home and his clients Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mark Twain, Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie, Tolstoy, and other notables The Bell Witch legend The Jersey Devil that haunts the Pine Barrens Building on his decades of research into the paranormal, mystical, and supernatural, Brad Steiger brings the history, theories, and influences of these mysterious visitors to life. Tracing the perplexing and lasting effects of these ghostly beings, he looks at the scars left and the fallout on the people who’ve lived through a host of alarming, horrifying—and horrifyingly real—encounters.
