Sporting Guide: Los Angeles, 1897

Sporting Guide: Los Angeles, 1897

A brilliantly imaginative, illustrated recreation of an 1890s Los Angeles pocket guide, or "Sporting Guide," to the brothels of the day.

Los Angeles, 1897, When Vice Ruled The City

Long before the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles was a city where dreamers from all over the world came to make their fortunesâ€”where a madam named Pearl Morton entertained the most powerful politicians and entrepreneurs inside her namesake brothel. In a series of haunting, interlinked stories set in the period, author and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn re-creates a â€œsporting guideâ€â€”a secret diary and guidebook of the best brothels and prostitutes in the city. In this world a hushed conversation inside a velvet-lined boudoir could destroy a man, and the rustle of bushes might reveal a sordid assignation. Based on original research in the libraries and archives of Los Angeles, these fictional stories are often inspired by real historical charactersâ€”like the laudanum-addicted Cora Phillips, whose tombstone Goldwyn rediscovered, or Bartolo Ballerino, Italian immigrant slumlord of the forgotten red-light district, or thirteen-year-old Frances dreaming of life beyond the Childrenâ€™s Orphan Asylum. Interspersed in these storiesâ€”and featuring over a hundred historical photos and illustrationsâ€”Goldwyn reveals the history of the period, from the rage for corsets to crushed pearl powder cosmetics and the awful cures for syphilis. Sporting Guide evokes a lost world of those on the margins of Los Angeles, of the hustlers who made it into one of the great cities of the world, and Goldwyn gives a poignant voice to the people and stories forgotten by time.
Country USA
Brand Regan Arts.
Manufacturer Regan Arts.
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 100
ReleaseDate 2015-10-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781941393048

Country	USA
Brand	Regan Arts.
Manufacturer	Regan Arts.
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	100
ReleaseDate	2015-10-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781941393048

Sporting Guide: Los Angeles, 1897

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