Santa Monica Bay: The first 100 years : a pictorial history of Santa Monica, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Topanga, & Malibu

Santa Monica Bay: The first 100 years : a pictorial history of Santa Monica, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Topanga, & Malibu by Fred E Basten. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780913264171.

Today, the waters of the Santa Monica Bay are as placid, the curve of its shoreline as lovely, and the rise of its bluffs and mountains as imposing as when Juan Cabrillo and his men cast anchor centuries ago. From the “Bay of Smokes” to a verdant pasture, from a struggling village to an internationally famous playground, from a handful of isolated towns to a sprawling cosmopolitan complex – a thriving panorama so vast not even the Bakers, Joneses, Rindges, Kinneys, and other giants of the formative years could have imagined its equal, even in their finest hour. This book tells the story of that transformation in a series of unique and unforgettable photographs.