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Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900-1930

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Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum

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Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900-1930
Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900-1930

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Jul 09, 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 Don Julian Rd, City of Industry, CA 91745

About the event

Have you ever wondered how and why Los Angeles became so obsessed with cars?

Join authors Darryl Holter and Stephen Gee in discussion as they share excerpts from their new book Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900-1930 and the story of the pioneering auto dealers who seized the chance to join a start-up industry that reinvented an American city.

Book signing to follow discussion.

Darryl Holter is a historian, automobile dealer, and musician. His books include The Battle for Coal: Mineworkers and the Politics of Nationalization in France, Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor History, and Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941. As the CEO of Shammas Automobile Group, he oversaw eight dealerships including the iconic Felix Chevrolet and was the founding Chairperson of the Figueroa Corridor Business Improvement District in L.A.’s historic Auto Row. He is an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of…

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The Homestead Museum acknowledges that it is situated on part of the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Gabrieleño/Tongva/Kizh land. We recognize the Indigenous peoples of this territory as the traditional stewards and pay our respects to Indigenous peoples, their ancestors, elders, relatives, and relations, past, present, and emerging.

15415 Don Julian Rd, City of Industry, CA 91745

(626) 968-8492

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