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California Crazy and Beyond : Roadside Vernacular Architecture by Jim Heimann
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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Has only been sitting on a shelf..”
- Type
- Picture Book
- Literary Movement
- Expressionism, Modernism
- Signed
- No
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Collector's Edition, Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
- Vintage
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780811830188
- Book Title
- California Crazy and Beyond : Roadside Vernacular Architecture
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Architecture
- Topic
- General, Vernacular, Regional
- Item Weight
- 26.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 1 in
- Number of Pages
- 180 Pages
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Product Information
In 1980, Los Angeles historian Jim Heimann wrote a book about the oddball roadside architecture that has dotted the American landscape since the advent of the auto. Published by Chronicle Books as California Crazy, it stayed in print for nearly 20 years. Finally, here is the greatly expanded new edition of that sought-after classic. California Crazy and Beyond is packed with madcap restaurants, motels, service stations, and many other businesses shaped like hot dogs, animals, airplanes, pianos, and other architectural anomalies. Over the years, Heimann's continued research has uncovered a multitude of new pictures and forgotten buildings. With over 380 photographs and an illuminating text that tracks the subject well beyond the bounds of the West Coast, California Crazy and Beyond is an authoritative document of a style born in America and spread to all corners of the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chronicle Books
ISBN-10
0811830187
ISBN-13
9780811830188
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1738768
Product Key Features
Book Title
California Crazy and Beyond : Roadside Vernacular Architecture
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
General, Vernacular, Regional
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
26.5 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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One of the most arresting and telling images in "California Crazy & Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture" by Jim Heimann appears on the title page of the book. A grinning carpenter stands in front of a half-finished restaurant under construction on Whittier Boulevard on a sunny day in 1932, and behind him we can see the 2-by-4s and tar paper and chicken-wire that will give the structure its fanciful shape-the restaurant is called teh Chili Bowl, and that's exactly what it will look like. "California Crazy & Beyond" is a celebration of architecture that is designed and built to look like something else-ships and planes, trolleys and zeppelins, flowerpots and fireplaces, oranges and lemons, toads and toadstools. With more than 350 evocative examples of what Heimann calls the "anything-goes attitude" in California architecture, the book can be enjoyed as a charming exercise in whimsy and nostalgia. At the same time, however, it offers some intriguing insights into how and why Southern California came to be "the crazy-building capital of the world." -Los Angeles Times -- -, One of the most arresting and telling images in "California Crazy & Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture" by Jim Heimann appears on the title page of the book. A grinning carpenter stands in front of a half-finished restaurant under construction on Whittier Boulevard on a sunny day in 1932, and behind him we can see the 2-by-4s and tar paper and chicken-wire that will give the structure its fanciful shape-the restaurant is called teh Chili Bowl, and that's exactly what it will look like. "California Crazy & Beyond" is a celebration of architecture that is designed and built to look like something else-ships and planes, trolleys and zeppelins, flowerpots and fireplaces, oranges and lemons, toads and toadstools. With more than 350 evocative examples of what Heimann calls the "anything-goes attitude" in California architecture, the book can be enjoyed as a charming exercise in whimsy and nostalgia. At the same time, however, it offers some intriguing insights into how and why Southern California came to be "the crazy-building capital of the world." -Los Angeles Times
Lccn
00-057085
Grade from
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
720/.9794
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Lc Classification Number
Na730.C2h4 2001
Copyright Date
2001
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