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From Golden State to golden culture

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080323
Author:Mark Feeney

Critic's Notebook

It's not as if the rest of the country all of a sudden discovered California in the 1950s. Since the Gold Rush, a century earlier, it had served as an ever-more-powerful magnet for newcomers: an American Eden that beckoned rather than banished. Distinctly Californian contributions to American culture were as various as they were notable: the novels of Frank Norris and John Steinbeck; the architecture of Bernard Maybeck and Greene and Greene; the photography of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams; above all, that alluring assembly line collectively known as "Hollywood."

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