October 31, 2005
Preservation Headlines
Billy, give regard to Broadway
Downtown L.A. - "In the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, L.A.'s Broadway District pulsated with entertainment...Today, these theaters are vacant. In New York, meanwhile, 6 million people flock to theaters and inject more than $4 billion into the city..."
DWP Powers Off Fountains
Downtown L.A. - "The 120,000-square-foot moat that surrounds the 15-story headquarters has been drained as crews complete repairs on the shallow pool..."
Visiting the Great Movie Palaces of Los Angeles
Downtown L.A. - "Downtown Los Angeles is a great place to find cut-rate stereos, haggle over “designer” sunglasses, or pick up a belt with a platinum handgun for a buckle. But once it was home to a string of lavish movie palaces that rivaled New York’s Great White Way in terms of elegance and star power..."
Exhibit in DWP Lobby Pays Tribute to William Mulholland
Downtown L.A. - "Even Angelenos not much interested in state history know a thing or two about William Mulholland: that he's the father of the Los Angeles Aqueduct..."
A vanishing heritage of religious architecture
Los Angeles - "The show at Skirball Cultural Center devoted to Robert Berger's photos of L.A.'s historic religious sanctuaries shows that always-growing L.A. does indeed have a preserved architectural heritage..."
LAUSD Board Approves Contested Plan For Echo Park School
Echo Park - "The Los Angeles school board voted Tuesday to approve a contested plan to build an 875-student elementary school in Echo Park..."
Legacy Plans $150M Condo Project
MIracle Mile - "The Irvine office of Foster City-based Legacy Partners plans to develop a $150-million, 13-story condominium tower of 164 units at the site of the former Desmond’s Department Store in the Miracle Mile district..."
End of the Line Proves a New Beginning for NoHo
North Hollywood - "North Hollywood was developed more than a century ago when the San Fernando Valley was mostly farmland and open space. In its heyday, it was something of a downtown for the Valley, with shops, banks and hotels lining its main streets and a Red Car trolley line..."
More family-friendly than Westside-trendy
Mar Vista - "Once known as the "Lima Bean Belt of the Nation," Mar Vista maintains a modest view of itself..."
The Majesty of Mt. Wilson's 60-Inch Telescope
Mount Wilson - "In 1908, when the giant dome doors lurched open and starlight fell on the 60-inch telescope for the first time, researchers still had little conception of how vast the universe would turn out to be..."
New plan offered for Queen Mary site
Long Beach - "A group headed by a Woodland Hills real estate developer and a music executive will hold the main lease on the Queen Mary if a reorganization plan filed Friday in a Los Angeles bankruptcy court is approved..."
Decline and Fall
Santa Monica - "The City’s demolition of the architecturally and historically significant RAND Corporation’s buildings seems to contradict the City’s often-stated support of both historic preservation and adaptive re-use..."
Work-In-Progress: 415 PCH
Santa Monica - "After a decade of inaction, the resurrection of the old Marion Davies estate at 415 PCH is now moving forward rapidly – perhaps too rapidly..."
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