Chris Nichols is an American columnist, editor, preservationist, and author. He has written the "Ask Chris" column as an Associate Editor of '' LA Magazine'' since 2000.

Career

Nichols, a former Chairman of the Los Angeles Modern Committee of the

Los Angeles Conservancy The Los Angeles Conservancy is a historic preservation organization in Los Angeles, California. It works to document, rescue and revitalize historic buildings, places and neighborhoods in the city. The Conservancy is the largest membership based ...

, works to preserve the mid century modern architecture of Los Angeles. He began writing the "Ask Chris" column for Los Angeles Magazine in 2000. In "Ask Chris", Nichols answers readers' questions about Los Angeles area history and people. Chris Nichols produces an annual Halloween-themed Spooks Tour. Nichols is the author of ''The Leisure Architecture of Wayne McAllister'', a book largely about historic neon signage and mid-century structures in Las Vegas and other cities. This book received positive reviews, including from ''

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'', and it won a 2008 Independent Publisher Bronze Medal award. In 2018,

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published ''Walt Disney's Disneyland'' a definitive book on the creation of

Disneyland Disneyland is a amusement park, theme park in Anaheim, California. Opened in 1955, it was the first theme park opened by The Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. Disney in ...

written by Chris Nichols and co-authored by his wife, Charlene Nichols.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nichols, Chris American columnists Journalists from Los Angeles 21st-century American writers 21st-century American journalists American architecture writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)