The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941

by Richard Longstreth and Richard W. Longstreth

Book Overview

Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century.

Richard Longstreth is one of the few historians to focus on ordinary commercial buildings--buildings usually associated with commercial builders and real estate developers rather than architects and thus generally overlooked by historians of "high" architecture.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262122146
• ISBN13: 9780262122146
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.9" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher