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. 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
  8. Manufacturing Mass Culture, 1895-1950s
  9. White Shadows: Mass Media / Empire, 1920s-1950s
  10. The Art of Rebellion in Cold War Los Angeles, 1950-1992
  11. Checkers: Senator Richard M. Nixon, 1952
  12. The Tonight Show, 1954-Present
  13. The Ed Sullivan Show, 1948-1971
  14. Nuclear ICBM Atlas Missile Launch, Cape Canaveral Florida, 20 February 1958).
  15. Former Nazi SS Major Wernher von Braun, Time Magazine, 17 February 1958
  16. The Four-Level Interchange, 1954
  17. Eames House (1958)
  18. Nixon at Hungarian Border, 1956, by Ferenc Daday, 1971
  19. Edward Kienholz, John Doe (1959)
  20. Race-Ethnic Majority Map, Los Angeles County, 1950
  21. "Theme Building," Los Aneles International Airport (architectural rendering, 1959)
  22. T.V. Factbook, 1953 Report of the Radio Electronics Television Manufacturers Association (RETMA)
  23. Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, and Willliam Frawley, in I Love Lucy, 1955
  24. Mark Rothko, No. 10,1950.
  25. Galleries of La Cienaga, 1958-1969
  26. Operation Cue (1955)
  27. Law and Order (Universal Pictures, 1953)
  28. Race-Ethnic Majorities by Census Tract, 1950, Showing Pico-Whittier and Lakewood-Rosemead Transections
  29. Edge of the City (1957)
  30. Hellcats of the Navy (Columbia Pictures, 1957)
  31. Dragnet, 1951-1959
  32. Walt Disney and Wernher von Braun, 1954
  33. Richard Nixon ''Checkers'' Speech (23/September/1952)
  34. Edward Kienholz in 1958. Image courtesy of Marvin Silver and Craig Krull Gallery. © Marvin Silver (Getty PST)
  35. African American Globalism, 1950s-1960s
  36. The New Hollywood in the Old Hollywood, 1950s
  37. 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
  38. Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Charlton Heston at the Lincoln Memorial (with Dr. Martin Luther King) for the March on Washington, 28 August 1963
  39. Szarkowski (1956)
  40. The Defiant Ones (1959)
  41. Cold War Consumer Landscapes: Of Suburbs, Grocery Stores and Shopping Malls, 1930s-1950s
  42. Phase I: Cinema's Civil Rights Leaders, 1950s-1960s
  43. Shulman, Lovell House (1950)
  44. Arts & Architecture (January 1951)
  45. Untitled (1950), by Clay Spohn
  46. Shulman, Spencer House (1955)
  47. Arts & Architecture (April 1953)
  48. Stars and Stripes, 1952
  49. Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
  50. Theodore Hall's Camera Stroll, 3rd Street Shopping District, Bunker HIll, 1954
  51. Pereira and Luckman's Master Plan fore Bunker Hill (1954)
  52. Edmund Teske, Walter and Shirley Hopps at the Ice Cube, Malibu, 1955.
  53. 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