1940 (1939) (1941) (1930-1940) (1940-1950) Table of Contents
Sources
Raymond Chandler Farewell, My Lovely, Knopf, 1940 See Text
Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1940, 1930s See Text
Hotel Chase 1725 Ocean Front, Santa Monica, California Post Card See Image and Text
Kensington Auto Hotel Post Card See Image and Text
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1943, 1942, 1941, 1940, 1933, 1921, 1913, 1912 See Text
Becky M. Nicolaides My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965, Photographs by Robbert Flick. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002, 1940 See Text
Karl Rydgren, Santa Monica Police Officer, c. 1940, Photographer unknown. Photograph from the collection of Alyssa Navapanich. See Image
Santa Monica Planning Division Santa Monica Landmarks Tour, 2003.
50. Craftsman style Residence, 1913 See Text
Tower Motel, 2505 Lincoln Blvd. (U.S. 101) Santa Monica, Cal. See Text and Images
Verdi Woodward Hope to Die: a memoir of jazz and justice, Schaffner Press, Inc.: Tucson, AZ, 2006, 338 pp., 2006a, 1940, See Text
Discussion:
Santa Monica had slowly grown into a middle-sized city of 50,000 by 1940, 1986.
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