Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990, 1939
Paul J. Karlstrom Modernism in Southern California, 1920-1956, Reflections on the Art and the Times, 1990, quotes Aldous Huxley:
"Then suddenly the car plunged into a tunnel and emerged into another world, a vast untidy, sub-urban world of filling stations and bill-boards, of low houses in gardens, of vacant lots and waste paper . . . Mile after mile they went . . . To right and left, between palms or pepper trees, or acacias, the streets of enormous residential quarters receded to the vanishing point.
CLASSY EATS.
MILE HIGH CONES.
JESUS SAVES.
HAMBURGERS.
"Five or six more turns brought the car to the top of the hill. Below and behind lay the plain, with the city like a map extending indefinitely into a pink haze . . . Before and to either hand were mountains-ridge after ridge as far as the eye could reach, a desiccated Scotland, empty under the blue desert sky."
- Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Harper and Row, 1939.