Silver Lake Bohemia : a history / Michael Locke and Vincent Brook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Locke, Michael (Michael J.), author.

Brook, Vincent, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.

Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History--20th century.

Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Biography.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, [2016]

Summary:

Since the early 1900s, Silver Lake has been a magnet for iconoclastic writers, architects and political activists. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Hollyhock House for socialist and oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, drew a wave of visionary modernists to the area. Local civil rights advocate Loren Miller spearheaded the fight against housing discrimination. Silver Lake's Black Cat bar and Harry Hay's Mattachine Society were central to the early gay rights movement. Literary artists Anäis Nin and James Leo Herlihy made the neighborhood their home, as did other notables like first lady of baseball Effa Manley and "Hobo Millionaire" James Eads How. Michael Locke and Vincent Brook chronicle these and other people and places that helped make Silver Lake the bohemian epicenter of Los Angeles.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.

ISBN:

9781625858030

1625858035