Hollywood Remembered : An Oral History of Its Golden Age (Hardcover)

from Lcanon

For a lot of film books, "Hollywood" means the movie industry only. Hollywood Remembered is a history of both the city of Hollywood as a physical entity and an industry. Part 1 is capsule history, starting with the founding of Hollywood as an alcohol-free community by a Midwestern couple and cont...

from kristykay22

A fascinating history of the early days of Hollywood. Zollo gives us a narrative history of the town (going all the way back to the days of the dinosaurs!) and a location by location run down of important landmarks, but the best part of this book is the longest, the oral histories. Zollo sat down...

from jazznoir

Originally published in 2002, Paul Zello's Hollywood Remembered, gives us a century of oral history of Tinseltown during the Golden Age. Much like C.M. Pierce, an entrepreneurial tourist guide mentioned in the first chapter, the author quickly shuttles the reader through the basic history of the ...

from bostonian71

Zollo clearly loves Hollywood -- its landmarks, its geography, and the whole story of the studio system, which he feels was Hollywood's golden age. Unfortunately, what isn't clear is the organization of his book. As amanda4242 notes, the first and third sections are informative but rather dry, an...

from dleona

The history of Hollywood, while informative,was dry. The interviews were hit or miss, some delightful, others gossipy or mean-spirited. Some interviewees seemed to embellish or misremember. This is obviously a book to be dipped into, rather than read through from beginning to end. The landmarks s...