• Los Angeles & Old Hollywood

  • Jun 29 2020
  • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
  • Podcast

Los Angeles & Old Hollywood

  • Summary

  • In a place known for dark alleys, dream factories and California sunshine, there are a few bars and hotels that hold the secret to how one city captured the world’s imagination. Take a stroll through those surviving landmarks, the places where a handful of writers watched Los Angeles rumble to life between Prohibition and the 1950s: They were hard-drinking personalities who changed the face of the West Coast – and their typewriters were blazing as they challenged the censors, crystalized the city and worked under the shadow of an ever-entrancing murder.

     

     

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