1959 (1958) (1960) (1950-1960) (1960-1970) Table of Contents
Sources
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, 1959 See Text
Alan Hess Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture, Chronicle Books: San Francisco, CA, 1985, 1959 See Text
Fritz Leiber, 2004a, 1959 See Text
Gordon Newell and Joe Williamson Pacific Coastal Liners, Superior Publishing Co.: Seattle, WA, (Bonanza Books, Crown Publishing: NY), 1959, 192 pp., 1910s, 1880s, 1870s, 1869, 1860s, 1850s, See Text
Jack Smith The Big Orange Ward Ritchie Press: Pasadena, CA, 1976. 252
Watts Towers 1959, 1923 See Text
Jeffrey Stanton Venice of America: 'Coney Island of the Pacific,' Donahue Publishing: Los Angeles, CA, 1987, 176 pp., 1960s, 1959, 1958, 1956, See Text, Image, and Links
Notes:
"Winter and spring storms during 1959 wrecked havoc in what remained of the city's harbor. The January 5, 1959 storm was the worst in eleven years. . . waves thirty feet high. The harbor master, Pat Lister, narrowly missed being tossed into the . . . waters . . . in a 70 mph wind gust . . . De Luca's Fish Market flooded . . ." Stanton, 1990
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