Background
Henstell, Bruce Michael was born on October 3, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Henry Harold Henstell and Irma (Spahr) Levy.
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hard cover, 223 pp. First edition....)
Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hard cover, 223 pp. First edition. Excerpt from jacket flap. With its more than 400 superb photographs, paintings and drawings, twenty-six of them in full color, many never before published, with its richly informative text and captions, this book celebrates a great American city. Here the spectacular visual variety and richness of Los Angeles is fully projected in a single volume. We see the exuberant, sometimes chaotic growth of the city as the Los Angeles panorama opens out, from the days of the Californios who built the first missions and pueblos in the 1770s, through the cityscape of the 1880s (revealed in a contemporary series of color lithographs) to the latest avant garde art and architecture . . . the incredible landscape of the film world to the no less central and fascinating oil and aircraft industries, from the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains to the rows of blue-collar cottages. Here are Venice's striking WPA murals the 1932 Olympics . . . the first Tournament of Roses. Here are the vast constructions so typical of Los Angeles-the endless freeways, the historic aqueduct bringing water from the Owens Valley the Hollywood Bowl. In marvelous rare photographs we see the city dominated and shaped by transportation-from the horse and stagecoach to the railroads and streetcar railways and ships to the automobile and airplane. And finally we see Los Angeles, the brave new city spreading out across the face of Southern California; effecting and altering everything in its path, the splendid metropolis moving into its third century.
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Henstell, Bruce Michael was born on October 3, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Henry Harold Henstell and Irma (Spahr) Levy.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1967; Master of Arts in Far East Studies, University of Michigan, 1970; Master of Library Science in Information Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989.
Freelance writer, producer, since 1970; producer, Station KCBS-television, Los Angeles, 1982-1986; producer, correspondent, Station KCET-television, Los Angeles, 1981, 1989-1990. Nutritional consultant Food section Los Angeles Times.
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hard cover, 223 pp. First edition....)
President Friends of University of California at Los Angeles Library, Los Angeles, 1986-1988. Member Writers Guild American, West, American Society for Information Science, Special Libraries Association, Society of America Archivists.
Married Frances Neel, 1969 (divorced 1974). Married Pamela Gay Cokeley, August 4, 1983. Children: Max Philip, Samantha Eden.