John Densmore--"LA Woman Redux," The Doors in the 1970s Luis J. Rodriguez--"What Needed Screwing Got Screwed," industrial Los Angeles in the 1970s Joe Donnelly--"Venice Bohemia: From Abbot Kinney to the Z-Boys" Dana Johnson--"March 1974," first hand encounter with the SLA house Deanne Stillman--"From the Desert to the Sea: First Hand Encounters With Los Angeles," Didion-esque musings through adventures in the desert Lynne Friedman--"Hamburgers, Hemorrhages, and Haute Cuisine" Joel Drucker--"The Making of a (Tennis) Player," sports and sex in the 1970s Howard Gerwitz--"Ritam Bhara Pragya," a young meditator moves to Hollywood Ken Levine--"Me? I've Got a Pilot.," breaking into the LA TV 'biz' Geza X--"Shitty Lead Guitarist Takes California By Storm," producing LA punk icons in the 1970s Mitch Schneider--"Merging Worlds: Los Angeles, 1979," a New Yorker moves to LA Jillian Franklyn--"I Was an Illegal" Bruce Ferber--"Bright Lights, B-City," working in B pictures Matthew Specktor--"Last Button on the Left: The Late, Great Z Channel" Michael Lazarou--"Heart of Darkness: How Dr. Demento Saved My Bony, White Ass" Lynell George--"For Now" Susan Hayden--"Borrowing Sugar," a poem about growing up around celebrities David Kukoff--"It Was Fun While It Lasted... an Oral History of the Innovative Program School" Rick McCloskey--"Cruising Van Nuys Neighborhood" Chip Jacobs--"Snake vs. Wolf," the Esalen cult Anthony Davis and Jeremy Rosenberg--"The Notre Dame Killer," the USC tailback that succeeded OJ Simpson Del Zamora--"The Day Three Chicanos Died" Erica Lyons and Debra Wacks--"Snapshots: Seventies Performance Art in LA," the first all-women installation artpiece in LA Joy Picus--"Running For City Council in the 1970s" Samantha Geimer--"Just An Ordinary Girl," Roman Polanski Bob Chinn--"Johnny Wadd: Origins," first encounters with John Holmes Steve Hodel--"The Snake and Bake Murder," 1970s Hollywood Hills swinghouse turned kidnapping and dead bodies in the desert Jim Natal--"A Few, Mostly True Things About LA" Tom Teicholz--When Reality was a Joke: the Making of Albert Brooks' "Real Life" (1979)
