Introducing DESTINATIONS by Roger L. Titus and Jim Bunte
At the turn of the century, picture postcards were the dominant form of image-based reminders for those who traveled. Because photography had not yet become a low-cost, popular way of capturing memories, postcard publishers filled the bill with thousands of wonderful variations. And nowhere was this trend more apparent than in Southern California, where picture postcards and the trolleys that took tourists and residents throughout the Southland came to define the California Dream to the world. DESTINATIONS by Roger L. Titus and Jim Bunte features hundreds of cards and related artifacts depicting life in Southern California from the turn of the century to the 1950s — and all defined by the tracks of the Pacific Electric and its predecessor lines like the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. At the heart of DESTINATIONS is Henry E. Huntington and his massive Pacific Electric interurban / trolley empire. The book follows the development of the PE throughout Southern California, how Huntington's real estate empire paralleled the development of the PE and how postcard publishers helped promote locations along the PE with beautiful, stylized representations of the Southland. Each page contains a Southern California city or attraction, with major areas covered across multiple pages and illustrated with numerous postcards. In addition, unique Pacific Electric artifacts are included.
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