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Title: Los Angeles Then and Now by Rosemary Lord ISBN: 1-57145-794-1 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too many then and now photos basically the same
Comment: Of the 69 Then and Now photos, 30 were basically the same because
the view had not changed over the years. I lived in LA for over 30 years and there are so many areas that have changed completely it's a shame that they weren't used.
Rating: 4
Summary: Captivating
Comment: This is a wonderful book. It's absolutely captivating. Once you start looking at the pictures, you can't put it down. I love the photographs as well as the historical narrative. I'd recommend this book to anyone. I only wish it were longer.
Rating: 1
Summary: Lord! How disappointing!
Comment: I am a Los Angeles history buff (specialty, the early 1900s), so I bought this book for my library, but I was really disappointed in it.
For one thing, it is very badly edited; grammatical errors (mostly misplaced or dangling modifiers) abound. I mean, for such a handsome book, it really deserved a go-through by a professional editor.
Secondly, who really needs a photo of the present-day Roma restaurant at the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox (complete with a guy in a cowboy hat hurrying to beat a flashing "Don't Walk" light and a lineup of late-model cars waiting to cross)?
Or who needs a shot of the Virgin megastore where the historic Schwab's restaurant used to be? And on and on . . . Some of the "before" shots are worthwhile, but most of the "after" shots are really pedestrian -- including that hustling cowpoke.
The best pic is on the cover -- the opening of the movie "Hell's Angels" at Grauman's Chinese. There are some other good older pix inside, too.
As has been mentioned, this book is way too heavy on Hollywood, and the depth of the research by the author can be measured by the number of times she mentions the names of Hollywood movies. I am suspicious of some of the facts in the book, too, although I can't quite pin down the reason right now. Maybe it was all those grammatical errors.
Finally, this book was printed in China, and I have nothing against the Chinese or their desire to earn big bucks from the rest of the world, but couldn't the author have found a printer right here in the U.S. to do this book? "Produced by PRC Publishing Co." PRC, get it -- "People's Republic of China"?
So, don't make this your coffee table gift. If you want a so-so addition to your library of L.A. books, buy it second hand somewhere or pick it up off the remainder table. It has a very nice cover, but you know what they say about books and their covers . . .
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Title: New York: Then and Now by Annette Witheridge ISBN: 1571457976 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: San Francisco Then & Now by Bill Yenne ISBN: 1571451560 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: Imagining Los Angeles: Photographs of a 20th Century City ISBN: 1883792525 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hollywood Then and Now by Rosemary Lord ISBN: 1592231047 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: Chicago Then and Now by Elizabeth McNulty ISBN: 1571452788 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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