Tag: Los Angeles

September 6, 2012 /

Shirley Temple and Eddie Cantor cut President Roosevelt’s birthday cake: The President’s motorcade through downtown Los Angeles: The President addresses Los Angeles:

September 5, 2012 /

Today is Darryl F. Zanuck’s birthday:

August 27, 2012 /

Sorry angels, I have residential architecture on the brain – perhaps because I’m renovating my kitchen. The devil’s truly in the details. Quelle horreur! Don’t even get me started on counter depth refrigerators. I’ll put this in parlance any bride would understand; counter depth or built in refrigerators are the…

August 12, 2012 /

Lindbergh made his famous flight in 1927. This photo is of a somewhat obscure movie actress, Gertie Messinger, posing at an art exhibit in Los Angeles with a bust of “Lucky Lindbergh” sculpted by Irene Hundt Rundquist.

August 9, 2012 /

Hey, kittens! When it climbs into the hundreds we get to talk about the weather. It never snows here, except in 1932, and the big storm of 1949. New Yorkers might call it sweater weather when the thermometer plunges, but… Right now it’s positively toasty so take a gander at…

July 20, 2012 /

City Hall as seen by Ansel Adams on an overcast day in 1940: . Here is City Hall in “Gangster Squad”. Production Designer Maher Ahmad,  Cinematographer Dion Beebe, and Costume Designer Mary Zophres: . Check in tomorrow for an intimate peek at one recording artist’s beginnings in the 1960s…

May 29, 2012 /

There’s a centennial birthday coming up (July 12th) for the Beverly Hills Hotel which opened in 1912 and was renovated by Paul Revere Williams in 1946… Iconic. If you want to know about an architect who designed many of the landmark buildings of Los Angeles and hundreds of local residences…