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Tag: Los Angeles descriptions 1920s

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“The Neatly Prepared Cakes of Simple But Potent Hokum”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 21, 2025
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“The Most American City in America Any Way One Looks At It”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 19, 2025
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“It Is a Young City, Crude, Wildly Ambitious, Growing”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 17, 2025November 19, 2025
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  • Architecture & Decoration

“The Athens of the West”: Boosting Greater Los Angeles in Part Four of the Annual Midwinter Number of the Los Angeles Times, 2 January 1930, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 3, 2025
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