Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850-1950

Arnold Hylen
Publisher: Angel City Press
March 25 2025
EAN: 9781626401334
ISBN: 1626401330
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Synopsis: Discover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen.

Finalist, Foreword INDIES, Regional (Adult Nonfiction)

Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era 1850-1950 gives a lush, visual tour of a Los Angeles that no longer exists--one of elegant office buildings and stately mansions that were razed in the name of "progress" to build the city's famous freeways. Featuring stunning black-and-white photography from Arnold Hylen that captures a lost era, the book contains an original essay by the photographer that provides historical background and context for the time period. This new edition contains additional, never-before-seen photographs from Hylen and newly unearthed information from historian Nathan Marsak on these lost architectural treasures.