The photos are great but I wish the captions told us which buildings we were looking at.
St. Ives 65• June 28th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Is Joshua David Stein a native of Los Angeles?
His stock-in-trade descriptions of the city and its residents (“much of the other worldliness of Southern California then has been translated into now an almost extraterrestrial strangeness, an irrigated concrete-and-Starbucks dystopia where television and L. Ron Hubbard are the only gods and tanning and driving the only activities worth doing”) are indicative of someone who has not spent much time in Southern California.
jan• June 28th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
i think the second one is The Broadway that used to be in Westchester.
jan• June 28th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
sorry! i meant the third one!
RPA• June 28th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Great architectural photos, but why don’t we have a little narrative to go with each of the images?
Peter• July 2nd, 2010 at 11:59 pm
#1, you will have guessed, is a CocaCola bottling plant southeast of downtown LA.
I think #3 is Robinson’s in Beverly Hills.
#4 is Wright’s Freeman house.
#5 and #7 are Neutra’s Von Sternberg house. The couple at right in #5 are Ayn Rand and her husband, who owned it at the time; in the middle are the Neutras.
#6 is the Department of Water and Power near the civic center. Albert Martin associates, I think, 1960s.
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The photos are great but I wish the captions told us which buildings we were looking at.
Is Joshua David Stein a native of Los Angeles?
His stock-in-trade descriptions of the city and its residents (“much of the other worldliness of Southern California then has been translated into now an almost extraterrestrial strangeness, an irrigated concrete-and-Starbucks dystopia where television and L. Ron Hubbard are the only gods and tanning and driving the only activities worth doing”) are indicative of someone who has not spent much time in Southern California.
i think the second one is The Broadway that used to be in Westchester.
sorry! i meant the third one!
Great architectural photos, but why don’t we have a little narrative to go with each of the images?
#1, you will have guessed, is a CocaCola bottling plant southeast of downtown LA.
I think #3 is Robinson’s in Beverly Hills.
#4 is Wright’s Freeman house.
#5 and #7 are Neutra’s Von Sternberg house. The couple at right in #5 are Ayn Rand and her husband, who owned it at the time; in the middle are the Neutras.
#6 is the Department of Water and Power near the civic center. Albert Martin associates, I think, 1960s.
#8 is Dionna Neutra at her home in Silverlake.