9780738595870-073859587X-Leimert Park (Images of America)

Leimert Park (Images of America)

ISBN-13: 9780738595870
ISBN-10: 073859587X
Author: Cynthia E. Exum, Maty Guiza-Leimert with a foreword by Walter H.Leimert III
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback 128 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780738595870
ISBN-10: 073859587X
Author: Cynthia E. Exum, Maty Guiza-Leimert with a foreword by Walter H.Leimert III
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback 128 pages

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Leimert Park (Images of America) (ISBN-13: 9780738595870 and ISBN-10: 073859587X), written by authors Cynthia E. Exum, Maty Guiza-Leimert with a foreword by Walter H.Leimert III, was published by Arcadia Publishing in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other History (Photography & Video) books. You can easily purchase or rent Leimert Park (Images of America) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Leimert Park, one of the first comprehensively planned communities in Southern California, was founded and developed in 1927 by Walter H. Leimert Sr. and designed by Olmsted Brothers, a firm headed by sons of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., the master planner of New York City’s Central Park. In its early years, Leimert Park was a pasture situated on portions of the Rancho Cienega O Paso de la Tijera, once owned by land baron E.J. “Lucky” Baldwin. The area is best known for its gracefully curved tree-lined streets, Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean-style homes, and Art Deco buildings designed by some of the nation’s foremost architects. Famous residents Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, and Los Angeles’s first African American mayor, Tom Bradley, have called Leimert Park home. In 1967, artists Alonzo and Dale Davis founded Brockman Gallery, and with this beginning, a new era of Leimert Park as an arts and cultural center dawned. Today, with its art galleries, jazz and blues clubs, coffeehouses, performance spaces, restaurants, and Afrocentric fashion and merchandise shops, the area has evolved into one of Los Angeles’s great idyllic communities.

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