Description:
Title: The Romantic Southland of California - Including All of the Region Lying South of Santa Barbara & Bakersfield to the Mexico Lie with More Than 1,000 California Place Names Defined ***LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED with approximately 98 Full-Color Illustrations, Period Color Tint Photographs, & Outline Maps; color photo plates on endpapers
Author: Marshall Breeden
Publisher: The Kenmore Publishing Co.Year
Published: 1928
Edition/Printing: 1st/First
Ex-Library: NO
Total #'d Pages: 207
Size: 6 ˝”W x 9 5/8"H
Binding: cobalt blue cloth textured hardcover; gold cover/spine decoration & lettering
Dust Jacket: No
Condition: Very good; tight binding; no writing or markings; minor shelf/edge-wear; normal light paper toning; very faint speckling to first couple of pages post-Endpapers/pre-Title pages; spine sun-faded, with a bit of chipping to top/rear crease edge; beginning of paper split between front endpapers; faint dusty aroma
***CONTENTS:
*Twilight in Los Angeles
*This Romantic Land
*The City of Towns
*Crowds
*About Some Hotels
*More Interesting Places
*California Missions
*The Mission Play
*Easter Services
*Hollywood Bowl
*The Pilgrimage Play
*The Streets of Hollywood
*In a Movie Theatre
*The Wampas
*A Vaudeville Benefit
*Two Sides to Hollywood
*The Magic Island of Santa Catalina
*A Trip to Mt. Lowe
*The Beaches
*To the Rim of the World
*The Orange Shows
*Riverside, Redlands, San Bernardino
*Santa Ana, Orange, Anaheim
*Pomona and San Gabriel Valleys
*Long Beach, San Pedro
*Glendale, San Fernando, Burbank
*Santa Barbara, Ventura, Ojai
*San Diego, La Jolla, Point Loma
*Pasadena, Our Lady of the Crown
*Bakersfield and Taft, via Kern County and the Grape Vine
*Beverly Hills
*California Place Names Defined
***OUTLINE MAPS:
*The Heart of the Romantic Southland
*The High Sierra Country
*Coast Highway to San Diego
*Pre-Historic Relics of the Southwest
*County Map of California
*The Imperial Valley
*Highways to Bakersfield
*Highways to Santa Barbara
*Cities That Passed in the Night
*Old Time Stage Routes
*The High Sierras
*Orange County
*Outline Map of California
*Yosemite-Sequoia Sierra Highway
*San Joaquin Valley
***ILLUSTRATIONS: FULL-COLOR:
*Blossom Time in the San Fernando - Standard Oil Bulletin
*Patriarchs of the Grove, by William Wendt
*Hotel Baltimore, Los Angeles
*A Mountain Lake - Standard Oil Bulletin
*** IN COLOR TINTS:
*The Mission Inn at Riverside
*Mount Whitney, by Maul Lauritz
*A Southland Canyon by John Frost
*First National Studios at Burbank
*Where the Land Ends and the Sea Begins
*The Bowl of Hollywood on Easter Morning
*Outdoor Pipe Organ in Balboa Park, San Diego
*Ninth Church of Christ, Scientist
*Los Angeles Public Library
*Stately Home Built Amid Stately Eucalypti
*A Southland Wharf
*Oil Derricks
*Land and Sea
*Graumans Egyptian Motion Picture Theatre (Theater), Hollywood
*Glass Bottom Boat at Avalon
*Mission Play House at San Gabriel
*Founding of a Mission
*Easter Services on Mt. Rubidoux, at Riverside
*Hollywood Bowl Concert
*Universal City
*Harbor District at San Pedro
*A Southland Country Club
*Christie Comedy Set, Hollywood
*Dining Room at the Mission Inn, Riverside
*St. Paul’s Church, Episcopal, Los Angeles
*Mount Lowe *A Southland Patio, by David Lauszky
*A Golf Vista
*Street in Spain, at Santa Barbara
*Exterior First National Picture Studio, Burbank
*Chinese Theatre in Hollywood
*La Mirada Picture Theatre, Hollywood
*Spanish Type Homes
*El Monte High School
*A Mission Yard
*Warner Bros. Motion and Talking Picture Studio, Hollywood
*A Ventura Patio
*A Southland Church
*Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara
*A California Autumn, by Paul Lauritz
*Nature’s Teachings, by William Wendt
*A Santa Ana Home
*Harbor at Avalon
*De Mille Studio, at Culver City
*A Hillside Home
*Sailing the Channel
*Galleria of the Hotel Biltmore, Los Angeles
*Towering Pines, by William Wendt
*Pasadena Home Garden
*Looking Over the World
*Home of a Motion Picture Producer, Beverly Hills
*Stairway of the Padres at Old San Gabriel
*Sailing the Southland Deep
*Mission Vista
*Mack Sennett Original Studios
*An Outdoor Pool
*El Portal Motion Picture Theatre at Lankershim
*Carthay Circle Theatre, Carthay Center
*Sand Dunes Along the Way, by Guy Rose
*Changing Horse, by Frank Tinney Johnson
*The Malibu
*Where Drake, Dana and Cabrillo Once Sailed
*Palos Verdes Public School
*Rocks in the Mojave
*An Orange County Oak
*A Hollywood Hillside Home
*Avalon Bay
*The Trail from Redlands
*Street in San Bernardino
*Trees and the Mother Mountains
*Rocks Along the Shore, by Guy Rose
*The Night Comes
*A Desert Rock, by Gilbert Groll
*Southland Breakers, by Paul Lauritz
*Rocks Into the Sea, by Guy Rose
*The Del Mar Coast, by Conrad Buff
*Hills, by William Wendt