Kevin Starr Embattled Dreams California in War and Peace 1940-1950, Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2002, 386 pp., 2002, 1911, 1910, 1909, 1908, 1900s
[See 1912 for Starr's account of Homer Lea, Military Strategist]
[p. 130] Hollywood and aviation . . . developed side by side in Southern California as parallel industries . . . By 1908 Los Angeles already supported an Aero Club of California, which had two hundred members by 1909. In Janurary 1910 the Chamber of Commerce sponsored a pioneering international air meet on Dominguez Hill, a table-like plateau half-way between Los Angeles and the ocean. Glen Curtiss established a new speed record of sixty miles an hour, and the French aviator Louis Paulham . . . [p. 131] established a new altitude record of 4,165 feet.