Lewis Bradbury was a mover and shaker in Los Angeles of the 1890s. In the 1920s Hal Roach opened a film studio in his old house on Bunker Hill, the Rolin Film Company. This is the house when Lewis lived there:Harold Lloyd called the place “pneumonia hall” due to the…
Tag: Architect
The Irving J. Thalberg Building at MGM 1938-39: The Eastern Building – architectural rendering: The Eastern Building under construction in 1930: The Eastern Building – completed: The 9th and Broadway Building – completed 1929: The entrance to 9th and Broadway:
I’m a sucker for a soaring ceiling… Just can’t stand his Hobbit hallways, and less than commodious baths.
Architect Claude Beelman: In 1950 actress Monica Lewis demonstrates “falling back” to Standard Time on the Eastern building clock tower.
This is about as far as I go in the political arena, because this blog is about something entirely different. However, if you have something to say to your Representative try typing the name of the Congress person you want to contact in the search bar, or enter your zip…
“He used to say if you could look at a house in a magazine from 40 years ago and still like it, that was good work,” said granddaughter Karen E. Hudson, who has spent nearly three decades chronicling the work of the first African American fellow of the American Institute…
The exterior design was in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, with whitewashed concrete trimmed in blue, with a high bell tower and neon sign that could be seen for miles.[1] The architects were Carleton Winslow and Dwight Gibbs.[3] The iconic octagonal tower was placed in the front corner spandrel space…