VTG Southern Californialand Charles Phoenix 1st Edition Hardcover Book Retro MCM

Explore mid-century culture with vibrant Kodachrome images. A nostalgic journey through Southern California. Southern Californialand by Charles Phoenix Hardcover 2004 First Edition Includes dust jacket 144 pages "Phoenix presents the colorful region as the locals saw it through the lens of their cameras in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s--more than 170 images printed from the best of Phoenix's collection of other people's old slides. He takes us into the living rooms and backyards of real people, and travels with them uptown and downtown, visiting the famous attractions along the way. He shows the lifestyle and landscape from Santa Barbara to San Diego, from the desert to the sea, filled with futurism, escapism, the unconventional and the hauntingly normal." In very good pre loved condition. Light wear/scuffing to dust jacket. 💙Offers welcome💙