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Jan 13, 2023 · This collection of impressive photos captures the street scenes and everyday life of Los Angeles in the 1930s. Most of the pictures were taken by Ansel Adams which commissioned to document the city’s industry as the country was shoring up its air power.
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Aug 16, 2019 · Aug. 16, 2019 5 AM PT. The intersection of First and Spring streets appears in this panorama circa 1930. The view is looking east on First Street. On the left is Circle Park next to Los Angeles...
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Jim McClintock is good with numbers. By the time the retired marketing executive and his partner, Richard Graves, found this French Eclectic–style house in Los Angeles’s Toluca Lake neighborhood, he tallied they had visited some 252 properties. “This house was the happy ending to our sixteen-month search,” Jim says. Shown:One of two studies in eye-...
But while the couple loved the 1939 three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath house the moment they saw it, it was not at all what they had set out to find. “In our mind’s eye, we kept seeing that typical L.A. Spanish-style house: red-tile roof, bougainvillea and a palm tree in the yard, situated on a hillside,” says Jim, who now works as a yoga teacher a...
One of the features that captured the couple’s imagination on their first walk-through was the one-story house’s level yard, with a pool in the back, which would allow them to easily meld indoor and outdoor living. “So many hillside houses we saw required having to go down a flight of stairs to get outside,” says Richard, a website developer. “We w...
To realize their vision of a more open floor plan, a small expansion, and, most dramatically of all, a second-floor loft/office space, they hired local architect Jeff Troyer, already a friend. “They had a big wish list,” says Troyer, “and I realized quickly that given the budget, the work would need to be done in phases.” The first one would last 1...
The first round of renovations on the L-shaped house involved demolishing a series of interior walls to reconfigure the master suite, a change that meant decreasing the size of the bedroom to gain space for an ample walk-in master closet, what Troyer calls “a showpiece of the house.” The master bath also grew in size. In addition, a former TV room,...
A conspicuous feature of that now larger living room is a limestone wall, with a cantilever and three lighted display niches. “Rich and I have binders and folders filled with magazine tear sheets,” Jim says. “One of them had an image similar to the wall that Jeff designed for us. The stone read as very French Country, in keeping with the architectu...
Once the rough-cut stone was delivered on-site, it had to be shaped into square and rectangular pieces to create the desired look. With that work done, the stonemason laid out the blocks in the backyard as if working a jigsaw puzzle—with lots of input from Richard. “We wanted the stones set as tightly as possible to minimize the mortar joints,” say...
The second phase of the renovation involved turning the existing kitchen, dining room, laundry, and a small bedroom and bath into a large, open kitchen and dining space with pantry storage, while pushing out the back of the house to add a guest suite with a loft/office above it. Once it was complete, the house had grown by 700 square feet. Shown:Th...
One of the signatures of the house’s French Eclectic style is its dramatic hipped roof. This allowed Troyer to raise the ceilings of the kitchen, dining room, and master bedroom and give each one a tray shape, angled at the sides and flat at the top. The kitchen and dining room ceilings have a planked look, while the bedroom’s is finished with a gr...
So careful, in fact, were the homeowners with any trim that was added that they took some existing pieces to local movie studio workshops. “We brought the original 1939 door and some moldings to the Disney Moulding Shop to have them replicated,” says Jim, a perk of being a former executive. Meanwhile, another molding workshop, at Paramount Studios,...
The city's population skyrocketed from 102,000 at the turn of the century, to 577,000 in 1920, and over 1.2 million in 1929. Aerial view of UCLA (formerly the University of California, Southern Branch) taken in 1922. Propelled by the boom in 1920s, it became the fifth largest city in the US.
Feb 13, 2014 · Los Angeles exploded in the 1930s and 40s as Jack Warner, Lew Wasserman, Darryl Zanuck, and other film-industry titans built their empires, and a host of stars, from Fred Astaire to Jimmy...
Apr 14, 2016 · According to Arts & Crafts Homes, "The climate was perfect for a rambling 'natural' house with porches and patios... but there were sociological reasons for the American Bungalow’s birth in...
