Greater L.A.’s symbiotic relationship with the automobile reshaped architecture and the way people lived. The urban environment began reflecting people’s reliance on cars: the shift away from mass transit, the infrastructure built to support cars and how people used them in daily life and commerce, and the increasing distances to which people were moving. Los […]

Southern Californians sensed that the astonishing future they had eagerly anticipated since the 1920s had finally arrived in the 1960s. The boom of the 1950s had been the launching pad; by 1964 California became the largest state in the union; its aerospace, oil, electronics, tourist, and entertainment industries dominated the nation; its economy became one […]

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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s on the southwest end of Beverly Hills, near Roxbury Park. It was a wonderful neighborhood to grow up in. We could walk everywhere… to the park, to Wilshire Boulevard for shopping at Saks, I. Magnin’s, and Haggerty’s department stores, to school. We would often walk to many […]