Chronicles Of Old Los Angeles Exploring The Devilish History Of The City Of The Angels by James Roma

Chronicles Of Old Los Angeles Exploring The Devilish History Of The City

Of The Angels by James Roman is the account from the birth to recent times of a special city: the one that created the most lucrative and beautiful activity in the world: cinema. If Los Angeles is now synonime of cinema, stars, showbiz, you must know that the past centuries was a land populated by a lot of Native Americans. They lived peacefully and the arrival of Europeans broke their harmony forever.

Los Angeles, at that time was called Yang-na. These Native Americans were fishermen mainly and they stayed naked all the time. They believed in the afterlife and maybe a tradition adopted by the so-called white man, they practiced cremation; they also loved hallucinogens.

The real big problem appeared when a big colony of catholic imported many dangerous european illness. Native American's bodies were not prepared for them and more than 6000 of them died abruptly.

After this episode, the birth of Los Angeles. A city with a complicated life-story as you will see, but plenty of fascination. The book will drive you at the discovery of the first pioneers of cinema for later offering to you also the fascination of the important love-stories born in Hollywood; one of the saddest episodes of all the times the assassination of Bob Kennedy the brother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 1968. That hotel closed forever and then destroyed. 

This book can't end without a complete tour in the city of stars, angels, sun.

Tour One is about El Pueblo and Chinatown; the second Bunker Hill, the third one Hollywood, the fourth Hollywood Heights, then  Sunset Strip and Beverly Hills for ending with Santa Monica and Venice Beach.

A paradisiac guide, pretty informative and historic, for a dreaming city!

I thank Museyon Books for the copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori