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Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
The Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States, if not the world. Yet, in the early twentieth century Angelenos routinely lamented the city’s crowded, polluted, and eroded sands, many of which were private and inaccessible to the public. Between the 1920s and the 1960s, LA’s engineers, city […]