City Lights Books
Local girl makes history; exploring Northern California's kitsch monuments.
San Francisco native Frank travels to four of the abundant kitsch monuments in Northern California and combines personal narrative, local legend and state history to describe the sites' sources and legacies. The sites of interest are the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's "Cave Train Ride," a window into possible Bay Area prehistory; the "Stone Cats" statues in Los Gatos; Big Basin Redwoods State Park, home of the slice of 2000-year-old redwood; and the Pulgas Water Temple on the San Francisco Peninsula. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)