“Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles” w/ author Dr. India Mandelkern

Los Angeles is famous for many things: its traffic jams, its taco trucks, the palm trees, the sunshine. "Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles" explores one of its most overlooked design legacies––its streetlights. In Electric Moons, India Mandelkern examines the art and politics of street lighting in Los Angeles from the 1880s to the present day in her new book.
Join Michael Holland of the Los Angeles City Historical Society for an afternoon conversation with Dr. India Mandelkern about her new book “Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles. This FREE event is co-sponsored by Los Angeles City Historical Society and the History Department of the Richard J. Riordan Central Library.

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