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Tag: Boosterism Los Angeles 1920s

  • Economics

“She Has Touched the Imagination of General Public Opinion as no Other City Has Touched the Millions”: Purple Prose Boosterism in “Why Los Angeles Will Become the World’s Greatest City,” 1923, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 28, 2022October 28, 2022
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  • Economics

“She Has Touched the Imagination of General Public Opinion as no Other City Has Touched the Millions”: Purple Prose Boosterism in “Why Los Angeles Will Become the World’s Greatest City,” 1923, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 27, 2022October 28, 2022
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  • Economics

“She Has Touched the Imagination of General Public Opinion as no Other City Has Touched the Millions”: Purple Prose Boosterism in “Why Los Angeles Will Become the World’s Greatest City,” 1923, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 26, 2022
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  • Economics

Promoting “Everyday Life in Southern California” in the Los Angeles Times Annual Midwinter Number, Part Five, 28 December 1926

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 28, 2021January 1, 2022
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

“Here Life is Lived to its Fullest”: The Los Angeles Times Annual Midwinter Number, Part 4, 3 January 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 3, 2021
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  • Miscellaneous

“The Magic Mecca of Southern California”: A Breezy Take on Los Angeles in “The Outlook”, 5 August 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 5, 2020December 30, 2020
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