Way before Rodeo Drive and the �pink palace� of the Beverly Hills Hotel were built; way before the namesake hillbillies; its zip code; and Eddie Murphy�s detective techniques reaffirmed its place in popular culture; and way before its 1;001 mansions; Beverly Hills was comprised of wild canyons and ranchlands. Burton Green; one of the three original land developers of the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas; named this place of severe terrain after Beverly Farms; Massachusetts; a 19th-century spa. Since its establishment in 1907; Beverly Hills; California; has been a crossroads for the great movers and shakers of the entertainment industry as well as the tycoons; world leaders; and flotsam and jetsam magnetized by the limelight. The vintage photographs in this provocative volume illustrate Beverly Hills�s early transition from cow pastures to Hollywood�s extremely illustrious bedroom community.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Detroits Michigan Central Train Station MemoriesBy Debra WExcellent!!! I took the train back and forth from Detroit to Kalamazoo in my college days in the 70s and even thought the train station had begun to deteriorate then. I still remember the grandeur of the old days when my great-uncle worked on the train as a porter and we would pick him up at the train station when he would spend the night with us. It was full of hustle and bustle back then.The book magnificently portrays the good. the bad and the sad. I wish Detroit would retore it to its luster as apartments. condos. shopping and entertainment. Ive got my fingers crossed!!!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Christopher L. TaylorA+0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great reminder of past greatnessBy Peter S MonksonThe most memorable trips of my youth started and ended at this station. It was a monument to the wealth of this great city that made Detroit the magnificent and elegant community that it was in the first sixty years of the 20th Century.
