https://lavenuesproject.com/2017/07/09/lost-parkinson-auto-showroom-discovered-on-figueroa/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/lapl-00019076.jpgLAPL 00019076Figure 3: Photograph of 2100 Figueroa from the Security Pacific National Bank Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library, circa 1935.https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dscf9971-e1499638225381.jpgDSCF9971Figure 2: The building occupies a full block of Figueroa between 21st and 22nd Street. John and Donald Parkinson decorated the all-concrete building with Spanish Renaissance details. Photo by author, 2017.https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dscf9968.jpgDSCF9968Figure 1: 2100 South Figueroa, currently the headquarters of Orbit Industries. The building was designed in 1926 for Jack Maddox’ Lincoln dealership. While the ground floor windows have been sealed, much of the original detail survives above. Photo by author, 2017.2017-07-12T00:47:55+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/map/2017-05-13T01:50:20+00:00weekly0.6https://lavenuesproject.com/2016/08/01/mary-louise-schmidt-architectures-fairy-godmother-patron-saint-and-guardian-angel/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/view-exhibit.jpgview exhibithttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/house.jpghousehttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/house-2.jpghouse 2https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fig-7-neutra-interior.jpgFig 7 Neutra Interiorhttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fig-6-neutra-exterior.jpgFig 6 Neutra Exteriorhttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fig-5-detail-architects-building-lapl-00019146.jpgFig 5 detail architects building LAPL 00019146https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fig-4-lapl-00019149-architects-building.jpgFig 4 LAPL 00019149 architects buildinghttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fig-3-1927-better-homes-week-picture-florence.jpgFig 3 1927 better homes week picture florencehttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fig-2-lapl-00044405-exterior-met-building.jpgFig 2 LAPL 00044405 exterior Met Buildinghttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fig-1-lapl-00031865-interior-met-building.jpgFig 1 LAPL 00031865 interior Met Building2017-05-12T21:10:19+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2017/03/12/saint-pauls-and-its-peripatetic-organ/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lapl-000318741.jpgLAPL 00031874https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/00042864.jpg00042864https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/st-james-church-chancel.jpegSt. James Church-Chancelhttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lapl-00076313.jpgLAPL 00076313https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lapl-00076311.jpgLAPL 00076311https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lapl-00042869.jpgLAPL 00042869https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lapl-00031874.jpgLAPL 00031874https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lapl-00031855.jpgLAPL 00031855https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/img_1954.jpgIMG_19542017-03-13T16:20:33+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2015/06/01/mothers-day-walk-with-a-side-of-womens-history/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/schmidt.jpgSchmidtFigure 5: Los Angeles Walks sign describes the Architects' Buildinghttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/plaque.jpgplaqueFigure 4: Plaque on the wall of the Variety Arts Building celebrating the "cultural contributions" of club membershttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/frauenfelder.jpgFrauenfelderFigure 3: Rendering from the Los Angeles Times of Frauenfelder's YWCA "health unit"https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/zanja-madre.jpgZanja MadreFigure 2: the gates of the Zanja Madre public art installationhttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hotel-fig.jpgHotel FigFigure 1: the Hotel Figueroa, "financed, built and operated by and for femininity"2016-08-01T04:45:15+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/about/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/drake-reitan-567x8001.jpg???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/drake-reitan-567x800.jpg???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/drake-reitan.jpgDrake Reitanhttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/picture1.jpgPicture12016-06-25T05:06:30+00:00weekly0.6https://lavenuesproject.com/2016/05/30/veterans-memorial-square-and-the-monument-to-peace-that-wasnt/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/5.jpg5https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/4.jpg4https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/3.jpg3https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2.jpg2https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1.jpg1https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/figure-2-lapl-00002551.jpgFigure 2 LAPL 00002551https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/figure-1-wing-monument.jpgFigure 1 Wing Monument2016-05-30T19:23:03+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2016/03/20/los-angeles-health-department-buildings-a-most-unpleasant-history/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dscf4491.jpgDSCF4491Decorative pre-cast concrete details hide parking. Photo by author.https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dscf4498.jpgDSCF4498The building is situated on a raised plinth above a small green space. Photo by author.https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dscf4506.jpgDSCF4506The building is surrounded by a Japanese-style garden that separates it from the street. Photo by author.https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dscf4505.jpgDSCF4505The Health Administration Building in 2016. Photo by author.https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/00049369.jpg00049369Artist's rendering of the new Health Department Administration building from 1966 by Arthur Froehlich & Associates, Architects. LAPL photo LAPL00049369 https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/international_bldg_1947.jpgInternational_Bldg_1947Aerial view from 1947 showing the International Building between Los Angeles City Hall and the Federal Court House, from the Water and Power Associates website.https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/international_bldg_1910.jpgInternational_Bldg_1910The International Building in 1910. This view and others available on the Water and Power Associates website2016-03-20T22:51:06+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2016/02/24/late-googie-coffee-shop-in-cypress-park-the-prebles-ihop/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dscf7254.jpgDSCF7254https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dscf7221.jpgDSCF7221Figure 2: The Shakers on Fair Oaks in South Pasadena retains many of Armet and Davis original toucheshttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dscf72161.jpgDSCF7216Figure 1: The Prebles Restaurant, now IHOP at Figueora and Ave 26. Under the blue paint is a late Googie coffee shop2021-02-23T23:42:36+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2015/11/01/conference-for-la-urbanists/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/image.jpegimageFrom Nov 4-8 approximately 400 historians and urbanists will be at the Biltmore for the 16th SACRPH conference2015-11-02T19:04:15+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2015/02/01/the-shoestring-strip-los-angeles-goes-out-on-a-limb/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/usc.jpgUSChttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fig-usc.jpgFig USCFigure 4: State Route 165, Figueroa Street, looking south from north side of Lomita Avenue, Los Angeles County, 1939 Source USC Digital Library (http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll59/id/904/rec/2)https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/00037755.jpgLAPL 00037755Figure 3: For most of the twentieth century, oil derricks and small family farms lined much of the strip. Photo of Figueroa Street near 134th. Source: Los Angeles Public Library, Security Pacific National Bank Collection (http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics36/00037755.jpg) https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/lapl-00038566.jpgLAPL 00038566Figure 2: City services came slowly to the shoestring strip. The Los Angles Public Library had an outpost at 111th and Figueroa Streets, February 26, 1924. Source: Los Angeles Public Library, Security Pacific National Bank Collection (http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics38/00038566.jpg) https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/detail-homer-hamlin-map-from-loc.jpgDetail Homer Hamlin map from LOCFigure 1: Detail of 1916 map by city engineer, Homer Hamlin documenting Los Angeles’ early annexations. Full map is available from the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/resource/g4364l.ct001800/)2015-02-10T01:11:12+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2014/01/27/abandoning-fig-the-high-cost-of-cartographic-uncertainty/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/max-lowenthal.jpgMax LowenthalFigure 1: Attorney Max Lowenthal argues for the supporters of abandonment. Source: Los Angeles Herald2014-12-18T19:27:11+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2014/01/04/hero-or-huckster-harry-coyne-the-dynamite-fiend/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/3264973959_441853b484.jpg3264973959_441853b484https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/coyne.jpgCoynehttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stimson_mansion-from-la-times-feb-7-1896-page-10.jpgStimson_Mansion from LA Times Feb. 7, 1896, page 102014-12-18T19:26:05+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2013/12/09/grasshopper-pearl-fig/2014-12-18T19:25:06+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2013/11/11/the-gods-of-change-and-progress-must-be-appeased/2014-12-18T19:23:49+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2014/03/24/ana-begue-de-packman-pioneer-of-preservation-2/2014-12-18T19:15:31+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2014/04/27/another-giant-gone-earl-grant-and-the-pigalle/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lapl-00001489-slappy-white-standup-at-pigalle.jpgLAPL 00001489 Slappy White standup at Pigallehttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/earl_grant_1967.jpgEarl_Grant_1967Figure 1: Earl Grant press photo from 19672020-07-12T22:24:14+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2014/10/05/sycamore-grove-park-a-garden-for-the-masses/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dscf1252.jpgDSCF1252Figure 4: Tennis players volunteered plans to turn the park’s two tennis courts into three. Source: Letter of Dan D. Jones to Honorable Board Park Commissioners, October 7 1914, Los Angeles City Archives and Records Center, Box c-752 RP-11-69https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/00098273.jpg00098273https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/00019809.jpg00019809Figure 1: Photograph by Charles Beam. For much of its early history Sycamore Grove Park remained relatively wild. Source: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection, http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics20/00019809.jpg https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/00019801.jpg00019801https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/00019799.jpg00019799Figure 2: On the surface the park seemed to be a sylvan ideal, the reality was much more interesting. Source: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection, http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics20/00019799.jpg https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/00019791.jpg00019791Figure 3: The tennis courts at Sycamore Grove Park were a constant source of concern. Source Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics20/00019791.jpg 2014-12-18T19:14:18+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2014/05/11/sole-survivor-forgotten-van-de-kamps-holland-bakery-hangs-on-in-south-la/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lapl-00058635.jpgLAPL 00058635Figure 6: Later iterations of the coffee shop continued to use the windmill motif, although in a far more subdued form. Lawrence L. Frank president of Van de Kamp's and Architect Welton Becket (left) look at a rendering of a new Van de Kamp's coffee shop for the Miracle Mile, 1951. Source: LAPL Photo Collection: LAPL 00058635https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lapl-00059037.jpgLAPL 00059037Figure 5: Googie Van de Kamp’s Drive-In by Wayne McAllister circa 1945. Source LAPL 00059037https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lapl-00060329.jpgLAPL 00060329Figure 4: Van de Kamp”s bakery similar to the Figueroa site under construction on Verdugo Road in Glendale. Source: LAPL Photo Collection 00060329https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lapl-00059075.jpgLAPL 00059075Figure 3: Van de Kamp’s bakery building in Los Angeles in 1928 designed by Hollywood art director, Harry Oliver. Source LAPL Photo Collection 00059075https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo.jpgFigure 1Figure 1: Contemporary view of former Van de Kamp’s bakery site now the Bestway Liquor store at 4157 South Figueroahttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/figure-1-van-de-kamp-central-facility-lapl-00046103.jpgFigure 2: Van De Kamp Central FacilityIn keeping with the company’s Dutch theme, New York architect J. Edward Hopkins, designed the Van de Kamp's headquarters in a rare Dutch Renaissance style. Source LAPL Photo Collection 00046103. In the late 1990s, the building was threatened with demolition (see Huell Howser clip for an overview of the history of the company and the preservation issues http://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/2000/10/04/van-de-kamps-visiting-802/). Today, the building’s façade has been rehabilitated and portions of the site are in use. However, the future is somewhat uncertain. For the latest on efforts to use the VDK site, see the Van De Kamp’s Coalition website at http://www.vandekamps.org/ 2014-12-18T19:13:31+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.com/2014/06/29/scholl-canyon-from-mountain-meadow-to-landfill-the-political-history-of-figueroa-streets-northern-terminus/https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/chart-from-la-times-showing-truck-route-e1404000111399.jpgChart from LA Times showing truck routeFigure 3: Map of the Figueroa Street access road which would bring hundreds of dump trucks through the Eagle Rock neighborhood. Source: Williams, Carlton, “Row Looms Over New Dump Site: Eagle Rock Lodges Protest Over Road to Glendale Area” Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File), Jan 11, 1960, pg. B6https://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/eagle_rock_substation-1917-huntington-digital-archive-e1404000235232.jpgEagle_Rock_Substation 1917 Huntington Digital ArchiveFigure 2: Eagle Rock Substation located in Scholl Canyon, 1917. Source: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Photo Archives, Southern California Edison Photographs and Negativeshttps://lavenuesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/john-holland-lapl.jpgJohn Holland LAPLFigure 1: Los Angeles City Councilman John Holland (seated) in 1967 with aide Art Snyder who would later succeed him as the representative of the city’s 14th district. Source: Los Angeles Public Library, Shades of L.A Photo Collection, 000024712016-03-09T17:07:35+00:00monthlyhttps://lavenuesproject.comdaily1.02021-02-23T23:42:36+00:00