LABC Presents: Los Angeles Before The Freeways +Book Signing!
Wed, Apr 16
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Apr 16, 2025, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE BOOK: Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era 1850-1950 gives a lush, visual tour of a Los Angeles that no longer exists—one of elegant office buildings and stately mansions that were razed in the name of “progress.” Featuring stunning black-and-white photography from Arnold Hylen that captures a forgotten era, the book contains an original essay by the photographer that provides historical background and context for the time period. This new edition contains additional, never-before-seen photographs from Hylen and newly unearthed information from historian Nathan Marsak on these lost architectural treasures.
The stunning photography recalls an era when downtown Los Angeles was unmarred by wide-scale redevelopment and retained much of its original character. Each page offers a glimpse of what the city used to be, before some of its architectural treasures were razed for the newer, more modern city that would soon follow—it’s no coincidence that many…
Tickets
- Sale ends: Apr 14, 12:10 PM
Breakfast Tickets
$28.00+$0.70 ticket service fee - Sale ends: Apr 14, 12:10 PM
Sponsor a Speaker
*This ticket DOES NOT grant admission to the event - it is a greatly appreciated donation. All attendees must purchase a Breakfast Ticket. Support the Los Angeles Breakfast Club to offset the costs of offering complimentary breakfast tickets to special guests.
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