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We’re thrilled to announce our first guide developed for mobile apps! Our Top 50 of '60s Architecture guide includes fifty 1960s sites throughout Greater Los Angeles. It’s available through Know What, a new iPhone app that offers highly curated guides to the city’s best places. The basic app ($2.99) includes 400 sites in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, including some from the Top 50 of the ’60s guide. An additional $2.99 buys the complete guide with all fifty sites. The Conservancy receives a portion of the proceeds. Currently only in iOS format (Android coming soon), the app and guide are available through iTunes and the Know What website. We’re working on two other mobile guides to help the public experience historic places firsthand.
Pershing Square Podcast Pershing Square is a five-acre park in the heart of historic downtown Los Angeles. This podcast, created by the Los Angeles Conservancy, highlights the history and architecture of Pershing Square and some of the buildings that surround it. Pershing Square is located between Fifth, Sixth, Hill, and Olive Streets.
The podcast is divided into brief chapters for your convenience (total playing time 26:41).
Chapter 1: Pershing Square (7:40)
Chapter 3: Title Guarantee and Trust Building (4:20)
Chapter 4: Pacific Mutual Building (4:25)
Chapter 5: City National Bank Building (4:10)
We’d love your feedback! Please send your comments regarding the podcast to Annie Laskey, program manager, at alaskey@laconservancy.org. Credits: Copyright Los Angeles Conservancy, 2010. All rights reserved. Written by Annie Laskey. Spanish translation by Pamela Corante. English version read by Annie Laskey and John Pesetski. Spanish version read by Pamela Corante and Ruben Maciel. Special thanks to Mike Jourgensen.
As part of a program called Downtown LA Walks, the Conservancy has worked with the Confederation of Downtown Associations to produce a free podcast tour of historic downtown highlights. The tour features about a dozen buildings as well as interviews with Conservancy Executive Director Linda Dishman, preservation architect Brenda Levin, and film critic/historian Leonard Maltin. The podcast series also includes tours of downtown shopping, arts and culture, and international destinations. The podcasts are available as RSS feeds and direct downloads, and each includes a printable map. Enjoy! |
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A sampling of the best historic architecture in downtown Los Angeles, with a printable map and descriptions of each featured building.
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Bradbury Building One of Los Angeles' oldest commercial buildings, the 1893 Bradbury Building has one of Los Angeles' most beautiful and significant interior spaces. The interior has a five-story skylit open court, with marvelous wrought iron banisters and two exposed cage elevators. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 6; Listed in the National Register of Historic Places Photo by Julius Shulman. Copyright J. Paul Getty Trust/Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at The Getty Research Institute. |
