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Author : Betty Lou Young
Release : 2001
Genre : Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pacific Palisades by : Betty Lou Young
Download or read book Pacific Palisades written by Betty Lou Young. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Nenik
Release : 2020
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Book Synopsis Seven Palms by : Francis Nenik
Download or read book Seven Palms written by Francis Nenik. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the story of the Thomas Mann House in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles--the house in which the legendary German writer and his family passed their period of wartime exile between 1942 and 1952.1952.
Author : Jan Loomis
Release : 2009
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 482/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pacific Palisades by : Jan Loomis
Download or read book Pacific Palisades written by Jan Loomis. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Palisades owes its name to its geography. The cliffs looming above the beach reminded the early developers of the Hudson River Palisades in New York. The name for this eventually affluent coastal enclave of the city of Los Angeles was first used in 1906 for an area of Santa Monica homes. Palisades Park in Santa Monica hugs the top of the bluff. So it must have seemed natural to name the area north of the Santa Monica Palisades Pacific Palisades. Today Pacific Palisades is synonymous with lovely homes and distinguished residents as well as rocky cliffs. Many of the photographs reproduced here have never before been published and show how the land changed from open mesas to the thriving community it is today. Pacific Palisades completes the story of the Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica and its neighboring rancho--the Boca de Santa Monica--and the Santa Monica Land and Water Company.
Author : Marion True
Release : 2005
Genre : Art museum architecture
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Book Rating : 419/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Getty Villa by : Marion True
Download or read book The Getty Villa written by Marion True. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman Villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks. Closed for almost ten years while renovations were made to the building and the site itself was transformed into a center for the study of antiquities and conservation, the Getty Villa is now set to open late in 2005. The Getty Villa is a lively history of the Getty Museum, its renowned antiquities collections, and its growth from a small museum in a ranch house in Malibu to its first home in a building designed to replicate what we know of the Villa dei Papiri, an ancient Roman villa partially uncovered in Herculaneum. Most engagingly, this book records the ten-year adventure in reconfiguring a beautiful, but topographically challenging, site into one that could continue to accommodate the splendid Museum building and also provide for an outdoor theater, laboratories for conservation work and research, offices for staff and visiting scholars, and an education program for adults and children. This is a story of architectural imagination, geographical challenges, and legal hurdles, all of which have resulted in a truly unique and beautiful site. The story is an enlightening and rewarding one for anyone interested in architecture and in the difficulties posed by building on a grand scale in the twenty-first century. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes 250 reproductions of works of art, photographs of both the old and the new Getty Museum, site plans, and architectural elevations.
Author : Martha French Patterson Wynegar
Release : 1984-01-01
Genre : Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Book Rating : 409/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Backyard Bomber of Pacific Palisades by : Martha French Patterson Wynegar
Download or read book The Backyard Bomber of Pacific Palisades written by Martha French Patterson Wynegar. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
