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Free Download Barry A. Sanders, "The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games"
English | 2013 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1467130370, 1531675158 | EPUB | 22,5 mb
The Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984, reimagined the Olympic Games and reinvigorated a troubled Olympic movement. Its innovations included the following: a nationwide torch relay that yielded millions for childrens charities; an arts festival that surpassed any prior efforts; the first Opening Ceremony featuring a professional theatrical extravaganza; early introductions of voice mail and e-mail; new sports disciplines, such as distance races for women, windsurfing, synchronized swimming, heptathlon, and rhythmic gymnastics; an army of volunteers; vast increases in sponsorship and television revenue while avoiding commercialization and keeping expenses low using existing facilities; and a financial surplus of over $232 million, which has endowed sports for youngsters in the Los Angeles area to this day, all through a privately financed organizing committee without government contributions.

Free Download John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles "
English | ISBN: 0814347762 | 2023 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915. Photography aided the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in opening the region to the rest of nation. Painters gave traditions that were fading in Europe a new lease on life in the California sun, with signature colors and techniques that would be adopted by L.A. real estate companies, agribusiness, and health retreats. Tourism infused the iconography and signature styles of art with cultural mythology of the state’s colonial past, offering proto-cinematic experiences to those who ventured west. Author John Trafton explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of these art forms in the land of sunshine. A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.

Free Download Melissa Magsaysay, "City of Style: Exploring Los Angeles Fashion, from Bohemian to Rock"
English | 2012 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0062088408 | EPUB | 39,0 mb
A stunning visual ride through L.A.’s fashion past, City of Style reveals Los Angeles’s far-reaching influence on the style evolution of the world at large-and showcases the brilliant, idiosyncratic individuals who have fueled its powerful transformations. Written by Melissa Magsaysay, the West Coast’s reigning style authority, City of Style is an irresistible look-book with a trove of fascinating stories and a beautiful photographs both classic and modern. Unlike any other style book available, City of Style sends the pulse of Los Angeles’s fashion beat right beneath your fingertips.

Free Download Adam Skolnick, "Pocket Los Angeles 4 (Lonely Planet Pocket Guides)"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1742208770 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 64.7 mb
Lonely PlanetPocket Los Angelesis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you.

Free Download Los Angeles: An Illustrated History by Bruce Henstell
English | 1980 | ISBN: 0394509412 | 223 Pages | PDF | 50.6 MB
With its more than 400 superb photographs, paintings and drawings, twenty-six of them in full color, many never before published, with its richly informative text and captions, this book celebrates a great American city.

Free Download Michael D. White, "The Port of Los Angeles"
English | 2008 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0738556092, 1531635709 | EPUB | 45,9 mb
The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world’s largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the first to realize the potential of the coastal dent on the map called San Pedro Bay in the 1850s. The bay’s namesake village expanded from a backwater loading point for raw cattle hides to a deepwater harbor rivaling and eventually surpassing San Francisco as the busiest port on the U.S. Pacific coast, and would later become the nation’s largest container port. Political battles in far-off Washington, D.C., economic booms and depressions, world wars, and billions of tons of cargo and material later, the Port of Los Angeles remains America’s premier revolving door for trade with markets around the world.

Free Download Zev Yaroslavsky, "Zev’s Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir"
English | ASIN : B0C1TGWN8V | 2023 | 388 pages | PDF | 18 MB
A LA Times Bestseller

Free Download Fodor’s Travel Guides, "Fodor’s Southern California: with Los Angeles, San Diego, the Central Coast & the Best Road Trips Ed 17"
English | ISBN: 1640974180 | 2022 | 432 pages | EPUB | 115 MB
Whether you want to get a glimpse of the Hollywood sign, hike in Joshua Tree National Park, or visit San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter , the local Fodor’s travel experts in Southern California are here to help! Fodor’s Southern California guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time.

Free Download Charles Patterson, "Mountain Bike! Los Angeles County: A Wide-Grin Ride Guide"
English | 2007 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0897326466 | EPUB | 24,9 mb
Mountain Bike! Los Angeles County has every conceivable type of mountain bike accessible terrain, from remote, loamy oak forest floor singletracks without a person in sight, to roller coaster, rock-garden filled chutes that will give you plenty of thrills.

Free Download Allen Riedel, "Best Hikes Near Los Angeles "
English | ISBN: 0762746416 | 2011 | 288 pages | EPUB | 29 MB
Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? Best Hikes Los Angeles guides readers to 46 of the best hikes within an hour’s drive from the greater metro area.