Silver Lake Chronicles: Exploring an Urban Oasis in Los Angeles

Situated between Los Feliz and Echo Park a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, Silver Lake thrives as a perennially avant-garde and enchanting enclave. From mansion builders and movie stars to bohemians, visionaries and just plain folk, discover Silver Lake's illustrious past and a fantastic cast of characters sure to enrich contemporary experience and inform the past. Colorful anecdotes about early movie magnates William Selig and Mack Sennett and silent-screen idols Mabel Normand, Antonio Moreno and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle flesh out these famous figures' lives in new and surprising ways. Other lesser-known but richly deserving stories about the area's pioneer families are shared perhaps for the first time. Authors Michael Locke and Vincent Brook present a rich tapestry of this unique urban oasis whose appeal seems only to grow.

Author: Michael Locke
Publisher: History Press
Published: 11/11/2014
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.12w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9781609499587
ISBN10: 1609499581
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regional (see also Travel | Pictorials)
- Travel | Pictorials (see also Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regio