by Charles Phoenix

Best-selling author, historian and performance artist Charles Phoenix follows up his remarkable hit book Southern California in the '50s with an even more remarkable Kodachrome study of the world that existed between Santa Barbara and San Diego in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. His retro slide tour takes readers to places they never dreamed existed, and our guide tags along with amateur photographers who snapped the best of Southern California.

Charles Phoenix grew up in Ontario in a '50s ranch home during the '60s and '70s, and went on countless family outings to the beach, desert, mountains, shopping centers and amusement parks. It stuck, as you can see in this book.