My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Historical Studies of Urban America)

by B M Nicolaides (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $35.29

  In the 1920s thousands of migrants settled in the Los Angeles suburb of South Gate. Blue collar workers built the suburb literally from the ground up. 'My blue heaven' demonstrates the ethic of self-reliance and homeownership which formed the core of South Gate's identity.