Don’t Get Out: The Automobile’s Impact on Five Building Types in Los Angeles, 1921–1941

This paper traces the development of architectural types in response to automobile-oriented business activities during the inter-war years, 4s the drive-in became synonomous with American Moderism, so too was it linked to the popular idea of Los Angeles. The author argues that although Los Angeles was not the drive-in city some chroniclers might have wished it to be it was indeed a harbinger of the contemporary metropolis.