Songs in the Key of Los Angeles

Songs in the Key of Los AngelesCulled from the Southern California Sheet Music Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, this unprecedented anthology tells the story of Los Angeles through its songs. Featuring the elaborately designed covers of more than one hundred pieces of vintage sheet music, Songs in the Key of Los Angeles spans 1849 to 1959, offering a rare musical window into Southern California history from mythic Missions to infinite oranges, from rumbling railroads to

and world-class restaurants exist in surprising places

Were these menus of the affluent and middle-class

Kun turns to chefs and cultural observers for their take on modern: Chef Roy Choi sits down long enough to say why he writes "some weird-ass menus

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and felt music of her people

With work that has been exhibited the world over

Assembled by the Photo Friends of Los Angeles

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a survivor of one of the world's worst library fires

written by Ken Bernstein

Los Angeles is a tapestry of unique neighborhoods packed with hidden gems