Tag: Los Angeles

December 15, 2015 /

Olivia de Havilland in Christmas red

December 6, 2015 /

Art Deco Los Angeles – Bullock’s Wilshire

Bullock’s Wilshire was the first department store designed to accommodate the car. Huge artfully dressed windows faced the street to attract traffic and the entrance was in the back under a porte-cochere where liveried attendants parked your Nash or Packard. Architects John and Donald Parkinson – built 1929 – architectural…

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December 5, 2015 /

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, Elizabeth Taylor

The fifties, when a certain young miss turned into queen bee – and deservedly so…

December 5, 2015 /

Elizabeth Taylor and Me, by Lanier Smith

Over my lifetime I leaned many things from Elizabeth Taylor. I learned how to face life straight on and survive the hard times. I learned that it was a blessing to be different. I learned that kindness and honesty and being the real you brings unexpected rewards. I learned by…

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November 2, 2015 /

“I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.” Richard Neutra, architect, 1892-1970

October 28, 2015 /

Edith Head, who was born Oct. 28th, 1897, was married to Wiard Ihnen – Production Designer

Even Google got into the act today with Miss Edith’s birthday: They lived in a wonderful house called, Casa Ladera…

October 24, 2015 /

Halloween Kids – 1925 – Hollywood

October 24, 2015 /

“Hollywood is just too marvelous. One feels the footprints of all the immortals are here, but has a terrible feeling that they are in sand and won’t last when civilization comes this way.” James Whale

Production Design: Charles D. Hall, Direction: James Whale

September 24, 2015 /

Hollywood whimsy — Barkies Sandwich Shop

Hope the food was as creative as the signage…

September 24, 2015 /

Car culture and the Los Angeles drive-in — where Deco meets Googie meets Camp

1949 –  Van de Kamps Bakery and Drive-In: 1939 – Simon’s: