Table of contents : Intro : After the goldrush, or Los Angeles without a star map On the avenue : West Coast cool, California crazy Boys of summer Sunset nights, jingle-jangle mornings Maybe the people would be the times, or Between Doheny and La Cienega Strange daze, weird sins Ladies and gentlemen of the canyon Crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs, or What were once vices are now habits The decline of the west Rituals of the habitual Epilogue : Slipping into darkness Postscript : Mongrel Hollywood : Mixmaster Beck in the city of the angels Appendix : Los Angeles in song