{"product_id":"9781942872191","title":"Sporting Guide: Los Angeles, 1897","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliantly imaginative, illustrated recreation of an 1890s Los Angeles pocket guide, or \"Sporting Guide,\" to the brothels of the day.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles, 1897, When Vice Ruled The City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Long before the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles was a city where dreamers from all over the world came to make their fortunes—where a madam named Pearl Morton entertained the most powerful politicians and entrepreneurs inside her namesake brothel. In a series of haunting, interlinked stories set in the period, author and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn re-creates a “sporting guide”—a secret diary and guidebook of the best brothels and prostitutes in the city. In this world a hushed conversation inside a velvet-lined boudoir could destroy a man, and the rustle of bushes might reveal a sordid assignation. Based on original research in the libraries and archives of Los Angeles, these fictional stories are often inspired by real historical characters—like the laudanum-addicted Cora Phillips, whose tombstone Goldwyn rediscovered, or Bartolo Ballerino, Italian immigrant slumlord of the forgotten red-light district, or thirteen-year-old Frances dreaming of life beyond the Children’s Orphan Asylum. Interspersed in these stories—and featuring over a hundred historical photos and illustrations—Goldwyn reveals the history of the period, from the rage for corsets to crushed pearl powder cosmetics and the awful cures for syphilis. \u003ci\u003eSporting Guide\u003c\/i\u003e evokes a lost world of those on the margins of Los Angeles, of the hustlers who made it into one of the great cities of the world, and Goldwyn gives a poignant voice to the people and stories forgotten by time.","brand":"Regan Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151849210096,"sku":"9781942872191","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942872191_p0.jpg?v=1763757667","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942872191","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}