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Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is a sweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regional shopping center. Richard ... More

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The firsthand story of this visionary of Kustom Kulture, with input from fellow builders, painters, and hot rodders, and a wealth of pictures from ... More

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In 1922 Rolls-Royce introduced their new 20hp model, known as the Twenty, the first in a family of what are now called the "Small Horsepower" cars. ... More

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Special bestseller price. The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and ... More

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This is the story of how an ex-B-17 airman established the SO-CAL Speed Shop and helped transform hot rodding from a scruffy, underground, outlaw ... More

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Crissy Field, flanked on one side by the Presidio and on the other by San Francisco Bay, was the training ground for men who would later become ... More

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This is a story of the way it was in Los Angeles of 1942. The war was on and millions of young men were answering the call to duty. Many more wanted ... More

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Established in 1923 as a subsidiary of Yellow Cab Company, Yellow Coach was one of the most important names in the history and development of bus ... More

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This book chronicles how Austin overcame the tough austerity period immediately after WWII and went on to design a comprehensive range of cars, ... More

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Already held in high esteem as a marque before the war the new Rover chassis of 1948 and new bodywork of 1950 carried on the tradition, equally ... More

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This fascinating chronicle follows America's number-one carmaker throughout one of the most dramatic periods in the manufacturer's history. The ... More

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At the beginning of the 21st century, California's 45,000 trucking companies employ more people than any other state's trucking industry. ... More

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Merton Gill is no ordinary man -- being hardly Merton Gill at all, but rather the romantic and popular idol of the silver screen -- Clifford Armytage ... More

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After WW2, the market changed and Studebaker began to struggle, as resources were limited and smaller companies, like Studebaker, found they could ... More

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This is the first book in English to reveal the extent to which modern architecture flourished in Romania--and is still visible as a neglected and ... More

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Now in its fifth printing, this volume provides an architectural and social history of the turn-of-the-century, craftsman-style American dream house ... More

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The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, as manifested in its ... More

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In 1949, photographer Don Normark walked up into the hills of Los Angeles, looking for a good view. Instead, he found Chavez Ravine, a ramshackle ... More

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The furniture, jewelry, recreational objects, ceramics, fabric arts, and other designs that emerged from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s California ... More

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Bel Airs, Corvairs, Fleetmasters, Impalas, Monte Carlos, Nomads, Novas and more, with comparisons to contemporaries.

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"California Romantica" features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by ... More

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Sonoma Valley: the name alone evokes a wonderful sense of warmth, beauty, and magic. On hearing it, one envisions landscapes of sparkling rivers, ... More

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