California has never lacked superlatives.
An edition of California Crazy and Beyond
(2001)
California Crazy and Beyond
Roadside Vernacular Architecture
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"At the beginning of the automobile age, in that most car crazy of places, Southern California, roadways were dotted with eye-catching beacons for travelers. Diners shaped like chili bowls, pigs, and coffee pots; hotels and theaters in Aztec and Mayan motifs; and all manner of oddly shaped buildings were part of the Western architectural landscape - a trend that spread across the country.
California Crazy & Beyond: Roadside Venacular Architecture is the most thorough documentation of this ususual architectural style, and a greatly enhanced, fully revised version of the classic book that first explored the movement."--BOOK JACKET.
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Roadside architecture, History, Vernacular architecture, Architecture, California, California architecture, Modern architecture, 20th century architecture, Architecture, united statesPeople
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California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture
June 2001, Chronicle Books
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0811830187 9780811830188
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"California has never lacked superlatives."
Table of Contents
Foreword.
4
Introduction by David Gebhard.
6
Chapter 1.
19
California Crazy
Chapter 2.
113
Out-of-state oddities
Chapter 3.
161
Signs, Cars, and Giants
Chapter 4.
169
Current Condition
Legacy.
175
Index.
176
Gebhard's Notes.
178
Photo Credits.
178
Bibliography.
179
Acknowledgements.
180
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