Los Angeles’ turbulent year of mass Covid-19 closures, racial unrest and exacerbated homelessness has led to a somewhat predictable stream of media coverage tied to the notion that the California dream is ending.If you lived for any length of time in the city, you’ve heard the pessimistic outlook all before, only to see the city recover.That’s why Ron Brownstein’s new book Rock Me on the Water is a bit of a refresher that the City of Angels has had its very, very good moments, in particular the year 1974 — a time when Los Angeles’ creative energies in TV, music, movies and politics were all their high points.
Those sectors of the culture certainly went through periods of renaissance before and since then, but this was a year when all was
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