Hillish Landscape

“A GOOD LIFE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS” BY JOHN WEAVER – APRIL 1970

In the old days the cliffdwellers were left to live as they pleased, like remote islanders who could be spared the civilizing advantages of clothes and churches because they had no natural resources worth exploiting. But the development of new earth-moving machines and building tech­niques during World War II, coupled with southern California’s explosive postwar growth, made it both pos­sible and profitable to subdivide mountain sites once considered un-buildable (they used to be given away as radio quiz-show prizes).

[Holiday Magazine, via.]