Golden dreams: California in an age of abundance, 1950-1963

Abstract

Preface PART ONE: SUBURBAN ASSUMPTIONS 1. San Fernando: Homes and Happiness in Residential Subdivisions 2. Designs for the Good Life: Modernism, Tiki, Ranch PART TWO: URBAN PERSPECTIVES 3. Urban Expectations: San Diego Leverages Itself into Big City Status 4. Baghdad by the Bay: Herb Caen's San Francisco 5. The Cardinal, the Chief, Buff, and Walter O'Malley: Upgrading the City of Angels 6. Downsides and Dividends: Los Angeles as Super City PART THREE: POLITICS AND PUBLIC WORKS 7. Common Ground and the Party of California: The Reluctant Retirement of Goodwin J. Knight 8. Cold War Campus: The University of California and Other Secret Places 9. Freeways to the Future: An Epic Construction on Behalf of the Automobile 10. Mare Nostrum: Achieving the California Water Project PART FOUR: ART AND LIFE 11. Provincials, Baghdader, and Beats: Literary San Francisco in the 1950s 12. Big Sur: The Search for Alternative Value 13. The Silent Generation: Coming of Age on the Coast of Dreams 14. Brubeck! Jazz Goes to College PART FIVE: GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT 15. Ahwahnee and the John Muir Trail: Variations on an Outdoor Theme 16. Largest State in the Nation: A Rebellion against Growth and the Destruction of the Environment PART SIX: CHANGING TIMES 17. Dissenting Opinions: California Enters the Nineteen Sixties 18. Cool, Not Cool: Epilogues and Transitions Notes Bibliographic Essay

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