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By Peter Aperlo
Cover Artwork — Paul Carrick
Scenario Washes — Paul Carrick
Scenario Line Art — Mislet Michel
Maps, Plans, Scans, Photos — Peter Aperlo
Editorial and Layout — Charlie Krank, Lynn Willis, Badger McInnes
Chaosium — Charlie Krank, Lynn Willis, Dustin Wright, & Fergie
Chaosium Inc.
2007
The Cover
Local Los Angeles street artist P. Carrick captures
the moment a suspected shoggoth engulfs
Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
Secrets of Los Angeles:
A 1920’s Sourcebook for the City
of the Angels
is published by Chaosium, Inc.
Secrets of Los Angeles:
A 1920’s Sourcebook for the City
of the Angels
© 2007 Chaosium Inc. as a whole;
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Secrets of Los Angeles
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SECRETS OF LOS ANGELES
Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Map of the Los Angeles Basin (map) . . . . . . . . . 6-7
CHAPTER FOUR: The Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Malibu and Pacific Palisades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Will Rogers (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Santa Monica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Tony Cornero (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
The South Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
L.A. Harbor & Long Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Raymond Chandler (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
CHAPTER ONE: The Real History of Los Angeles . . . . . . . 8
Timeline (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Guide to Pronunciation (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lines of Pacific Electric Railway (map) . . . . . 18-19
Climate and Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
William Mulholland (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Political and Social Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Cops and Robbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-30
1920’s Los Angeles Occupations (box) . . . . . . . . . 26
Los Angeles Street Names (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Los Angeles in Different Eras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
CHAPTER FIVE: Outlying Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
The San Fernando Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Edgar Rice Burroughs (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
The San Gabriel Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Upton Sinclair (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Santa Catalina Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Tijuana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
CHAPTER TWO: Downtown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Downtown Los Angeles (map) . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-33
The Great Oil Stock Swindle (box) . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Aimee Semple McPherson (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Sonoratown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ah Tom (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chinatown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
James E. Davis (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Opium Use and Addiction (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Little Tokyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
CHAPTER SIX: The Dream Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
The Business of Film Production . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A Film Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Tinseltown Sins & Scandals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
CHAPTER SEVEN: An Angeleno Grimoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Native Californian Magic and Myths . . . . . . . . . 147
A. L. Kroeber and J. P. Harrington (box) . . . . . . 147
Mexican Brujería . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Chinese Mysticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Other Occult Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
CHAPTER THREE: The Suburbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Boyle Heights & East Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Central Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
West Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Edward L. Doheny (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Westlake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Mid-Wilshire & Hancock Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Hollywood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Charlie Chaplin (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
The Curse on Griffith Park (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Beverly Hills & Sawtelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Culver City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Louis B. Mayer (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Cecil B. DeMille (box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Scenario 1: The Shadow Over Hollywood . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Scenario 2: The Blackness Beneath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Handouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
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