Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to Nixon

1950s

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  1. Decades, 1910s-1990s Curtis Fletcher

Contents of this tag:

  1. Love with Strangers: LA Countercultures, Rise of an Art Capital, and the Ends of Art, 1950s-1990s
  2. The Mating Dance of LA Arts and Architecture: 1900s-1950s
  3. Three Sisters of Mass Media: Cinema, Radio, Television, 1920s-1950s
  4. Suburbia, Automobility, and Metropolitan Space, 1930s-1950s: FOOTNOTES
  5. Beat Dada: Ed Kienholz (1927-1994)
  6. Angelenos Fleeing Martian Invasion Across the Four-Level Interchange, 1953
  7. The Art of Rebellion in Cold War Los Angeles, 1950-1992
  8. John Joseph Cantwell (1874-1948), Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles; Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935), and Carrie Estelle Doheny (1875-1958; Papal Countess 1939-), 1929
  9. Manufacturing Mass Culture, 1895-1950s
  10. White Shadows: Mass Media / Empire, 1920s-1950s
  11. The Tonight Show, 1954-Present
  12. The Ed Sullivan Show, 1948-1971
  13. Nuclear ICBM Atlas Missile Launch, Cape Canaveral Florida, 20 February 1958).
  14. Checkers: Senator Richard M. Nixon, 1952
  15. The Four-Level Interchange, 1954
  16. Eames House (1958)
  17. Former Nazi SS Major Wernher von Braun, Time Magazine, 17 February 1958
  18. Galleries of La Cienaga, 1958-1969
  19. Mark Rothko, No. 10,1950.
  20. Operation Cue (1955)
  21. Law and Order (Universal Pictures, 1953)
  22. Dragnet, 1951-1959
  23. Walt Disney and Wernher von Braun, 1954
  24. Race-Ethnic Majorities by Census Tract, 1950, Showing Pico-Whittier and Lakewood-Rosemead Transections
  25. Edge of the City (1957)
  26. Hellcats of the Navy (Columbia Pictures, 1957)
  27. African American Globalism, 1950s-1960s
  28. Richard Nixon ''Checkers'' Speech (23/September/1952)
  29. Edward Kienholz in 1958. Image courtesy of Marvin Silver and Craig Krull Gallery. © Marvin Silver (Getty PST)
  30. Nixon at Hungarian Border, 1956, by Ferenc Daday, 1971
  31. Edward Kienholz, John Doe (1959)
  32. T.V. Factbook, 1953 Report of the Radio Electronics Television Manufacturers Association (RETMA)
  33. Race-Ethnic Majority Map, Los Angeles County, 1950
  34. "Theme Building," Los Aneles International Airport (architectural rendering, 1959)
  35. Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, and Willliam Frawley, in I Love Lucy, 1955
  36. Theodore Hall's Camera Stroll, 3rd Street Shopping District, Bunker HIll, 1954
  37. Arts & Architecture (April 1953)
  38. Stars and Stripes, 1952
  39. Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
  40. Pereira and Luckman's Master Plan fore Bunker Hill (1954)
  41. Edmund Teske, Walter and Shirley Hopps at the Ice Cube, Malibu, 1955.
  42. Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959, Edward Kienholz. Paint and resin on wood, printed color reproductions, ink on paper, vertebrae, telephone parts, candy, dental molds, metal, pencil, and leather. 87 x 42 x 21 in. The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Lanna
  43. The New Hollywood in the Old Hollywood, 1950s
  44. Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959, Edward Kienholz. Paint and resin on wood, printed color reproductions, ink on paper, vertebrae, telephone parts, candy, dental molds, metal, pencil, and leather. 87 x 42 x 21 in. The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Lanna
  45. Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Charlton Heston at the Lincoln Memorial (with Dr. Martin Luther King) for the March on Washington, 28 August 1963
  46. Cold War Consumer Landscapes: Of Suburbs, Grocery Stores and Shopping Malls, 1930s-1950s
  47. Phase I: Cinema's Civil Rights Leaders, 1950s-1960s
  48. Shulman, Lovell House (1950)
  49. Szarkowski (1956)
  50. The Defiant Ones (1959)
  51. Shulman, Spencer House (1955)
  52. Arts & Architecture (January 1951)
  53. Untitled (1950), by Clay Spohn