Spanish, Deco, Streamline Moderne — Union Station in Los Angeles was opened in 1939 and was designed by the brothers who also served as architects on City Hall, Donald Parkinson and John Parkinson. . .
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Mary Grant Price was a costume designer on Broadway – Vincent Price studied art and art history before becoming an actor in the 1930s – between them they had quite a gracious design-lifestyle-thing going on… Under the Mission cross on the fireplace our houseman, Harry Mullen, ladles Café Brûlot for…
I had a friend who used to work in the 1980s for the Samuel Goldwyn Co. He lived in Beverly Hills in an apartment and he took the bus to work. He also liked to walk. Apparently that wasn’t fashionable at the time and on his excursions by foot he…
Even the grocery stores were glamorous – designed by Morgan, Walls & Clements (also designed the Chapman Market) – this firm designed some of the most iconic buildings of early Hollywood (and I promise we’ll get to these landmarks) but for now we’ll roll with my fascination with the mundane…