Tune in as we welcome back an old friend and make a new one.
Author Stephen Gee and his co-author Darryl Holter for Driving Force: Automobiles
and the New American City, 1900-1930 (Angel City Press, 2023), a look at
Los Angeles’ impact on the early automobile industry.
With more than 150 spectacular vintage images—many never
before published—Driving Force brings to life the people who made the
automobile an icon of the modern American city. In its pages, readers will
discover how the story of the automobile is interwoven with Southern
California’s unique topography and sun-drenched climate; a new era of women’s
rights and a growing female influence on automobile design; the creation of the
Los Angeles Auto Show and the remarkable 1929 fire that threatened to destroy
it; and how car dealers launched beloved L.A. radio and television stations,
including KNX, KFI, and KCBS-KCAL.
Stephen Gee is an award-winning writer and television
producer based in Los Angeles. He is the author of Iconic Vision: John
Parkinson, Architect of Los Angeles (2013), and co-author, with Arnold
Schwartzman, of Los Angeles Central Library: A History of its Art and
Architecture (2016), which won the 2016 Glenn Goldman Award for Art,
Architecture, and Photography, presented by the Southern California Independent
Booksellers Association.
Darryl Holter is a historian, automobile dealer, and
musician. His books include The Battle for Coal: Mineworkers and the
Politics of Nationalization in France, Workers and Unions in Wisconsin:
A Labor History, and Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941. He is an
Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Southern California.
The Driving Force—Sunday
June 4th; 1:00-2:30PM PST; $5; pay via PayPal.
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