Nowhere on Earth are sequels and the success that fosters them more apparent than in Hollywoods bejeweled bedroom; Beverly Hills. This continuation of the history begun in Arcadia Publishings Images of America: Early Beverly Hills presents a compendium of vintage photographs depicting Americas one community thats most synonymous with wealth. However; the Great Depression hit here; too; and the book depicts that as well as the subsequent recovery and boom years; homes of the stars; influence of the close proximity to Hollywood; and the chic shops and restaurants that keep the tourists coming. From the Brown Derby to the Beverly Theatre; from the Harold Lloyd Estate to Jack Warners digs; from the Beverly Hills Hotels changes to those that created a new Beverly Hills Civic Center; these are the Beverly Hills facts that have been the bases for all of those Hollywood fictions.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. poor at bestBy Margaret Macfarlandsorry l love cincy lived all my 60 years almost but this doesnt do much for it bla postcards not much history at all just bought at sales and thrown in a book cheap for them expensive to buy it. would not again. think before you do like l did.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Cards along the river from 1900s onBy Gary SprandelThis book should be a fun and instructive read for anyone living in Louisville. Cincinnati. or river towns in between (like Rabbit Hatch. Kentucky). Old postcards going back to the early 1900s are used to show. for example the Roebling bridge. when the Ohio was low enough to show the foundations. In Cincinnati. I was also fascinated with the inclines. As a Louisville resident. the cards showing the unloading of boats with horse drawn wagons. and excursion vessels unloading passengers were most interesting. Perhaps the highlights are the steamship pictures. with info on side-wheelers. steam stacks. that band under bridges. and races and disasters. I wish color plates would have included the hand colored Kraemer post cards. and I would have enjoying reading more of the messages on the cards.
