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	Lost Hollywood Author: David Wallace
	Book Information Publisher: L.A. Weekly Books Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 4 Rating: ISBN-13: 9780312261955 - ISBN-10: 0312261950 Publication Date: 4/7/2001 Pages: 256

The movie business may have been born on the East Coast, but it created Hollywood in its own image. LOST HOLLYWOOD is a rich trip back into a vanished place and time-25 chapters that use lost structures as a launching point to tell the history of the movie business in the last century. Many of the subjects Wallace covers will be unfamiliar to even the most knowledgeable film buffs: from Marian Davies' extraordinary playpen Ocean House, known as"Xanadu by the Sea" to the development of Whitley Heights and its now-iconic Mediterranean architecture. Other chapters include new and fascinating details on classic Hollywood institutions, like the Hollywood Canteen, the Garden of Allah, the Brown Derby, the Copacabana and the legendary Pickfair.

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