What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Kevin Starr

Raking the Ashes, a research book of interest to anyone doing California and San Francisco genealogy, has just been released and is available from the California Genealogical Society. Author Nancy Simons Peterson painstakingly pursued the trail of clues in available records to search for great-great grandpa and subsequently conducted a comprehensive survey of San Francisco's extant sources ...

Manufacturer: California Genealogical Society
Written By: Nancy S. Peterson

Like its predecessors, this seventh edition of a best-loved publication recounts California's history from its origin to the present in a format that is engaging and informative. Even in the five years since the last edition of the book appeared, enormous social and material changes have overcome the Golden State. This new edition reflects these developments, considering them in historical context ...

Manufacturer: Harlan Davidson
Written By: Andrew Rolle and Arthur Verge

Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history--the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered ...

Manufacturer: University of California Press
Written By: Jared Orsi

This wonderful book proves our point that peoples' lives tell the real history of an era. It is both diversified and comprehensive in its coverage of the people whose hearts, souls and bodies are the stuff of which California was made. In addition to the breadth of material, the book also provides a depth of insight into life in the state's formative times, held together by the common thread of ...

Manufacturer: Pentacle Press
Written By: David J. McLaughlin

In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people," wrote engineer William Mulholland, under whose leadership the process of growth through ...

Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books
Written By: David Carle

Patented Private Land Grants Listed by County in California

Manufacturer: Wildside Press
Written By: Burgess McK. Shumway

The only complete guide to the historical landmarks of California, this standard work has now been thoroughly revised and updated. The edition is enriched by some 225 photographs, all taken by the reviser and new to this edition. Since the last revision in 1990, enormous changes have taken place within the state: many landscapes and buildings have been greatly altered and some are no longer in ...

Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
Written By: Hero Eugene Rensch, Ethel G Rensch

A history of class and power in San Diego, an anti-tourist guide that debunks the sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike. Let's just say there was good liaison between city government and business.—Ex-mayor of San Diego, Frank Curran, on the 1960s For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America's ...

Manufacturer: New Press
Written By: Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, Jim Miller

In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador, a former "Forty-Niner" during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous ...

Manufacturer: University of North Texas Press
Written By: Gregorio Mora-Torres