Voices from West L.A.
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?Consider Los Angeles' contributions: fast food, freeways, prime-time television, the automobile culture and suburbia itself. They all erupted here like nowhere else and got woven into a seamless universe. The new world. True enough, that new world amounted to a cultural horror show in many ways. Still, we remain its captives. Forty years gone, the '50s holds us in its grasp every day in every way. It's that cultural power of the '50s, I think, that gives a new book on L.A. its mesmerizing quality. The book, The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A. by Bonnie J. Morris, lets us see the emerging world--or parts of it--getting born like an infant star in a nebula.?-Los Angeles Times "Consider Los Angeles' contributions: fast food, freeways, prime-time television, the automobile culture and suburbia itself. They all erupted here like nowhere else and got woven into a seamless universe. The new world. True enough, that new world amounted to a cultural horror show in many ways. Still, we remain its captives. Forty years gone, the '50s holds us in its grasp every day in every way. It's that cultural power of the '50s, I think, that gives a new book on L.A. its mesmerizing quality. The book, The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A. by Bonnie J. Morris, lets us see the emerging world--or parts of it--getting born like an infant star in a nebula."-Los Angeles Times
BONNIE J. MORRIS is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at George Washington University.
Introduction: Contexts of Ethnicity, Gender, and Friendship The Interviews Roger Myra Pat Jennifer Bob and Helen The Intermarriage of Myra and Roger Sue Photographs and Club Documents Afterword Recommended Readings Index