From Cows to Concrete: The Rise and Fall of Farming in Los Angeles

From Cows to Concrete: The Rise and Fall of Farming in Los AngelesWhat? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the states wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where todays freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Kleig lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Natures gifts that no one could imagine a

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Discover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen

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