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