Architecture of the late twentieth century often reflected the influence of the contemporary art of its time. Architects and artists inspired each other and collaborated together, from designers such as Millard Sheets integrating art into his civic architecture and Home Savings and Loan branches, to architects like Frank Gehry, who in 1976 said, “My approach to architecture […]

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This Googie gem became a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2013.

I grew up in Hancock Park, and when I was about 12 or 13 my best friend, Kathryn, and I each got a bus pass, and this was our first taste of freedom. The bus we took most was the one down Wilshire Boulevard. We went to Wilshire and Fairfax and went shopping at the […]

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Southern Californians sensed that the astonishing future they had eagerly anticipated since the 1920s had finally arrived in the 1960s. The boom of the 1950s had been the launching pad; by 1964 California became the largest state in the union; its aerospace, oil, electronics, tourist, and entertainment industries dominated the nation; its economy became one […]