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Etan Does LA
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Exploring Los Angeles history, one landmark at a time
Etan Does LA 241: Washington Irving Branch Library | Los Angeles history
National Register visit 241: Washington Irving Branch Library 📍1803 South Arlington Avenue, West Adams
The 1920s were boom times for LA’s population, and the public library system too. Consider that in 1926, the same year Washington Irving Branch was constructed, LA got its new Central Library downtown. Washington Irving was one of 14 LA branch libraries built from 1926 to 1928, all funded by a $500,000 bond measure passed by voters in 1925. It was designed by Allison & Allison, they of the CalEdison building and UCLA’s Royce Hall, who clad it in brick and stucco with a cool circular projecting bay window on the east side (I call it “apsidary” in the video; it shoulda been “apsidal”).
In the late ‘80s, the Washington Irving Branch was deemed unsafe, seismically-speaking. So: to renovate, or move the branch? The city opted for the latter, and has left the old building vacant for 25 years. I’ve heard talk of them hiring @lehrerarchitects to rehab the branch and use it for children’s literacy programs. Maybe by 2026, in time for its 100th birthday? 🤞🏼🤞🏼
I'm visiting all 600+ Los Angeles landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places. Read about this one and many more at EtanDoesLA.com.
Photo credits:
📸1: Gary Leonard - Child entering Washington Irving Branch (Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection / @laplphotos)
📸2: Portrait of Washington Irving (public domain)
📸3: Mott Studios - Washington Irving Branch, ca. 1926-33 (@californiastatelibrary)
📸4: Mott Studios - Washington Irving Branch, 1926 (Herald Examiner Collection / LA Public Library)
📸5: 30th Anniversary of the library, 1956 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
📸6: First Congregational Church (Security Pacific National Bank Collection / LA Public Library)
📸7: Cal Edison Building (wiki user Downtowngal)
📸8: UCLA’s Royce Hall (wiki user Aegis Maelstrom)
📸9: Mott Studios - Washington Irving Branch, 1926 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
📸10: Dick Whittington - Washington Irving Branch, 1945 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
📸11: Interior of the Washington Irving Branch, 1926 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
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The 1920s were boom times for LA’s population, and the public library system too. Consider that in 1926, the same year Washington Irving Branch was constructed, LA got its new Central Library downtown. Washington Irving was one of 14 LA branch libraries built from 1926 to 1928, all funded by a $500,000 bond measure passed by voters in 1925. It was designed by Allison & Allison, they of the CalEdison building and UCLA’s Royce Hall, who clad it in brick and stucco with a cool circular projecting bay window on the east side (I call it “apsidary” in the video; it shoulda been “apsidal”).
In the late ‘80s, the Washington Irving Branch was deemed unsafe, seismically-speaking. So: to renovate, or move the branch? The city opted for the latter, and has left the old building vacant for 25 years. I’ve heard talk of them hiring @lehrerarchitects to rehab the branch and use it for children’s literacy programs. Maybe by 2026, in time for its 100th birthday? 🤞🏼🤞🏼
I'm visiting all 600+ Los Angeles landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places. Read about this one and many more at EtanDoesLA.com.
Photo credits:
📸1: Gary Leonard - Child entering Washington Irving Branch (Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection / @laplphotos)
📸2: Portrait of Washington Irving (public domain)
📸3: Mott Studios - Washington Irving Branch, ca. 1926-33 (@californiastatelibrary)
📸4: Mott Studios - Washington Irving Branch, 1926 (Herald Examiner Collection / LA Public Library)
📸5: 30th Anniversary of the library, 1956 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
📸6: First Congregational Church (Security Pacific National Bank Collection / LA Public Library)
📸7: Cal Edison Building (wiki user Downtowngal)
📸8: UCLA’s Royce Hall (wiki user Aegis Maelstrom)
📸9: Mott Studios - Washington Irving Branch, 1926 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
📸10: Dick Whittington - Washington Irving Branch, 1945 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
📸11: Interior of the Washington Irving Branch, 1926 (LA Public Library Institutional Collection)
#library #abandonedbuildings #historicarchitecture #lapl #lapubliclibrary #renaissancerevival #westadams #washingtonirving
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Etan Does LA 239: Judson Studios (Highland Park) | Los Angeles stained glass legends
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National Register visit 239: Judson Studios 📍200 S. Avenue 66, Highland Park It’s pretty staggering just how many LA landmarks are graced with stained glass from Judson Studios. From the Natural History Museum to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock and Ennis houses, Hollywood Forever Cemetery to the LA Central Library, First Congregational Church to Wilshire Boulevard Temple, and countless private h...
Etan Does LA 238: Grand Central Air Terminal (Glendale | Los Angeles aviation history
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National Register visit 238: Grand Central Air Terminal 📍1310 Air Way, Glendale The Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) was the first airport in LA to specialize in commercial air flight. In other words, they catered to actual passengers with predictable airline schedules, instead of one-off private flights by leather-helmeted pilots in custom monoplanes (though they did plenty of that too). For ...
Etan Does LA 234-237: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 5 (Pasadena) | Los Angeles history
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National Register visits 234-237: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 5 📍Pasadena The four bungalow courts that we’re talking about today officially complete my survey of the 30 Pasadena bungalow courts on the National Register of Historic Places. In the two years since I visited my first Pasadena bungalow court, I’ve grown from a skeptic to a full-on fanboy. I used to think: “Why are there so ...
Etan Does LA 233: Highland Park Masonic Temple (Highland Park) | Los Angeles history
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National Register visit 233: Highland Park Masonic Temple 📍104 North Avenue 56, Highland Park This handsome brick and terracotta building from 1923 witnessed nearly 60 years of ritual and fraternity from the Freemasons of Lodge #382. It was designed by architect Elmore Jefferey, a lodge member himself. Ironically, the thing that ended the Masons’ time at the building was…masonry. It was built o...
Etan Does LA 232: Fire Station No. 30 (Downtown | Los Angeles firefighting history
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National Register visit 232: Fire Station No. 30 📍1401 South Central Avenue, Downtown This historic fire station once housed one of LA's two segregated, all-Black firefighting units. While it wasn’t the city’s first segregated firehouse, it’s the earliest one that’s still standing. So there’s a certain poetic justice that its current tenant is the African-American Firefighter Museum, dedicated ...
Etan Does LA 231: Villa Carlotta (Altadena) | Los Angeles history
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National Register visit 231: Villa Carlotta 📍234 East Mendocino, Altadena Architect Myron Hunt is best known for big-ass commissions like the Rose Bowl, CalTech, the Pasadena Central Library, the Huntington Library and the Ambassador Hotel. But he was also an inspired designer of residential houses for the well-to-do, and today we’re looking at a unique one in my old stomping grounds of Altaden...
Etan Does LA 224-229: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 4 (Pasadena) | Los Angeles history
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National Register visits 224-229: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 4 📍Pasadena If you’ve got bungalow court fever like I do, you’ll find your cure in Pasadena. It may not be the first place where a designer laid out a bunch of detached dwellings around a central courtyard, but the bungalow court form hit its peak here between 1910 and 1930, with hundreds of these things sprouting up as an af...
Etan Does LA 223: Rancho Los Alamitos (Long Beach) | Los Angeles history
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National Register visit 223: Rancho Los Alamitos 📍6400 Bixby Hill Road, Long BeachThis old ranch on a hill in Long Beach has been so important to so many people for so long. For thousands of years the area was known as Puvungna, a village and sacred site for the Tongva/Kizh and Acjachemen tribes. Later it became a successful cattle ranch and farm, a world-class private garden, and the seat of a...
Etan Does LA 222: LAX's Hangar One | Los Angeles aviation history
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National Register visit 222: Hangar One📍5701 W. Imperial Highway, Los Angeles Here we have the first building constructed for the LA Municipal Airport (now LAX), in 1929, and the only one still standing from the airport’s earliest days. As commercial flight came to LAX mid-century, Hangar One became outmoded. It was built for biplanes, after all! But the city worked out a deal with a private de...
Etan Does LA 221: Michael White Adobe (San Marino) | Los Angeles history
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National Register visit 221: the Michael White Adobe 📍 2701 Huntington Drive, San Marino This humble home is one of less than 40 historic adobes left in LA County, and the second oldest building in San Marino, after the Old Mill. Today it’s surrounded by the sports facilities of San Marino High School. The pool is just on the other side of a chain link fence, so close that the water polo team h...
Etan Does LA 220: Winona Blvd. Mid-Century Modern Historic District (Los Feliz) | LA architecture
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National Register visit 220: Winona Boulevard Mid-Century Modern Historic District 📍Winona between Franklin & Hollywood, Los Feliz This district comprises 13 low-rise apartment complexes in an assortment of mid-century modern styles, constructed from 1950-1964. With a couple exceptions, these apartments were designed by the contractors that built them. So don’t expect the high-style modernism o...
Etan Does LA 214-219: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 3 (Pasadena) | Los Angeles history
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National Register visits 214-219: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 3 📍Pasadena The bungalow court is a type of multi-family housing that flourished in LA between 1910-1930, especially in Pasadena. For this third batch in my exploration of all 30 Pasadena courts on the National Register of Historic Places, I joined up with Andrew Salimian, former Preservation Director at @pasadenaheritage (he...
Etan Does LA 213: Glendora Bougainvillea | Los Angeles historic landmarks
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National Register visit 213: Glendora Bougainvillea 📍Corner of Bennett & Minnesota Avenues, Glendora It’s summer-ish, which means it’s peak bougainvillea season. In the US, this thorny vine with its bright magenta flowers only grows year-round in SoCal and parts of Florida. So let’s celebrate its rare glory by checking out the largest known planting of the vine in the continental United States:...
Etan Does LA 212: Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House (East Hollywood) | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 212: Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House (East Hollywood) | Los Angeles history
Etan Does LA 211: Washington Building (Culver City) | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 211: Washington Building (Culver City) | Los Angeles history
Etan Does LA 210: Fox Theatre (Inglewood) | Los Angeles movie theater history
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Etan Does LA 210: Fox Theatre (Inglewood) | Los Angeles movie theater history
Etan Does LA 209: Charmont Apartments (Santa Monica) | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 209: Charmont Apartments (Santa Monica) | Los Angeles history
Etan Does LA 154: Memorial Branch Library | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 154: Memorial Branch Library | Los Angeles history
Etan Does LA 207-208: Downtown LA Fire Stations | Los Angeles firefighting history
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Etan Does LA 207-208: Downtown LA Fire Stations | Los Angeles firefighting history
Etan Does LA 202-206: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 2 (Pasadena) | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 202-206: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 2 (Pasadena) | Los Angeles history
Inside Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments (East Hollywood) | Los Angeles architecture history
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Inside Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments (East Hollywood) | Los Angeles architecture history
Etan Does LA 201: Beverly Hills Post Office | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 201: Beverly Hills Post Office | Los Angeles history
Etan Does LA 200: Lloyd Wright House & Studio (West Hollywood) | Los Angeles architecture history
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Etan Does LA 200: Lloyd Wright House & Studio (West Hollywood) | Los Angeles architecture history
Etan Does LA 194-199: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 1 (Pasadena) | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 194-199: Whole Bunch o’ Bungalow Courts, pt. 1 (Pasadena) | Los Angeles history
Etan Does LA 193: Azusa Civic Center (Azusa) | Los Angeles history
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Etan Does LA 193: Azusa Civic Center (Azusa) | Los Angeles history
Etan Does LA 192: Doctors House (Glendale) | Los Angeles architecture history
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Etan Does LA 192: Doctors House (Glendale) | Los Angeles architecture history
Etan Does LA 191: Gartz Court (Pasadena) | Los Angeles architecture history
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Etan Does LA 191: Gartz Court (Pasadena) | Los Angeles architecture history
Etan Does LA 190: Warner Grand Theatre (San Pedro) | Los Angeles theater history
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Etan Does LA 190: Warner Grand Theatre (San Pedro) | Los Angeles theater history
Etan Does LA 188: Campo de Cahuenga (Studio City) | LA History
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Etan Does LA 188: Campo de Cahuenga (Studio City) | LA History
Thank you for your history tid bit - cool ❤❤
wonderful please shoot in landscape on your next segment
I shoot my videos vertically because my main audience is on Instagram and TikTok. You can follow me @etandoesla on one of those platforms to see my videos as intended.
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I lived in this hotel in 1983-84. It was wild!
Hahaha, still wearing masks?😂
This footage was shot in December 2021 and the video was posted in January 2022. What’s so funny about trying to protect a four-year-old from a global pandemic?
Hey man, just subscribed on the first watch. I noticed something...older vids seem to be horizontal. I like your stuff, but I think horizontal format would make these more aesthetically pleasing. Keep it up!!
@@jrriels963 Thanks for subscribing. My followers are mostly on Instagram and TikTok so that’s the format I prioritize. Follow me @etandoesla on one of those to see these vids in their vertical glory!
what are you using for research? If you have a LA library card you can tap into a bunch of info. I might be able to help.
@@quakercarlos1 I used the LAPL databases to look through old news stories and city directories. Also Sanborn Maps from the Library of Congress, the California Newspapers database from UC Riverside, looked at digitized building permits from the LADBS, and I spoke with a former homeowner who wrote the National Register application on the house. You can check out some of the primary sources I found on my writeup: etandoesla.com/240-e-a-k-hackett-house-pico-union/
Don Henley said he lived at the corner of Camrose and Tower when he wrote Witchy Woman
Love the videos, but please consider doing landscape instead of vertical. Unless it’s a short on UA-cam, he should be doing landscape mode.
Thanks for the feedback. Instagram and TikTok are the platforms where I’ve always had my biggest audience, that’s why I shoot these vertical. Follow me @etandoesla on one of those platforms for the ideal viewing experience.
My school bus drive past these homes every day.
The White House beside the Charmed house was also used in a show…trying to remember…the one on the other side under construction was run down and needed rescuing! I’m happy it’s getting some needed TLC
I love Judson studios!
Another great video. Thank You
I grew up in San Gabriel,CA ..my big family and i attended that place when i was a kid in the 1970s. Yeah, I i was born in the 1960s... See the dragon slide.. it had a tree on top of the hill next to a dragon slide, giant snail had all light brown with dark brown swirls on the both sides, now all ugly yellow and blue snail .wtf?...🙄..... Giant blue whale .. still the same, giant dragon snake still the same,and all the same. Except the ugly yellow and blue snail ... Need to repainted the light brown and dark brown swirls!!! All the apartments behind this park were not there ..alot of branh trees aeound it, same bench seats where my parents,and others sat and watched us even chatted with the old fashioned cat subglasses, hairstyles,etc ...miss the old times with everybody before you were born!!!!
Great job...sorry we can't get inside for a look. Thanks for your work.
Wait I love the entire concept of your account!!!!! So cool!!!!!
@@MeganLombardiMakeup Hey, thanks! I still gawk at Villa Bonita every time I pass by.
Thank you that was a great article I actually work next to that so I'm going to go there
That is so kind! I hope you enjoy the tour. There's so much to see at Brand Park.
Get a proper camera, go full screen on UA-cam!
Follow me on Instagram or TikTok, go full screen in your phone!
Great story teller. Congrats.
@@MrRhinosilver Well thank you kindly!
Who played Amelia Earhart?
Her name is Marion Blake, and she's terrific: instagram.com/socal_amelia/
Wow! I did not know this. Beautiful structure.
Where did three stooges lived
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Love your channel Etan
As seen on Yo Gabba Gabba!
What a stunning exterior. Thank for showing me this.
Yma Sumac is still famous today. As a crossword answer.
Ha! She has one of my all time favorite voices. And a fantastic (if mostly apocryphal) backstory.
Great video, very informative well done. Bravo.
I worked on this property in the early 90's when Joel owned it. This no longer looks anywhere near how good it looked when he owned it. He did drop much $ into restoring, maintaining and caring for this property. It's a shame to see that future owners have let it get run down like this and do not have his love and passion for it.
Sad to see how this historic property has fallen into disrepair. I worked on this home in the early 90's when producer Joel Silver owned it. He dropped a boat load of $ into restoring and maintaining it. Almost criminal how later owners have allowed it to deteriorate like this.
I wonder if kids/teens from nearby schools would go in there during the 80s and 90s. You know, all that tagging. Interesting material. Everyone needs their little getaway. I actually go to ELAC, but my God, those black and white and those 2nd floor pictures. Looks almost like the Queen Mary back in time. Gotta love ELAC, btw, I am still there. Amazing video, btw.
Thank you for the kind feedback! No idea who it was that did all the tagging, but that happens anywhere you get a derelict building sitting unused and unattended for a long enough time.
Etan you rock! I would love for you to tour Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. Thank you.
I grew up here and went to school at Malaga cove intermediate School and then to Palos Verdes high School. We got married at the Wayfarers Chapel, which is now unfortunately being taken apart due to Earth movement. This place is Shangri-La.❤-Reagen Endsley
I always intended to look up this stations history and it always slipped my mind. My uncle used to work at that Coca Cola until they transferred him to Moreno Valley in the early 90s. We lived near 23rd street and central.
That's so cool, I bet your uncle has STORIES. Sounds like you all left just before the old station was renovated and turned into a museum. It's open (almost) every Sunday afternoon if you want to check it out.
Why film this way?
@@CPAndy-x5x What do you mean? Vertically? I mainly post on Instagram and TikTok which are vertical platforms.
i visted that place looks cool
It's a beautiful park and the library is wonderful too. Thanks for including those crazy photos from 1929. There wasn't much else on the hills above the fountain back then.
I've been on a Myron Hunt kick recently, was surprised to learn that the library was one of only 2 building he designed in Palos Verdes, despite being the head of the art jury out there! Thanks for watching :-)
Enjoyed that. Thanks for posting this informative piece.
"Ancestorial homeland"... LOL. My family's from SoCal but I watch from St Paul, MN. I really enjoy your quick, information-packed videos. Oh, and your tagline's great too!
@@bitngeo Hey, thanks for this! Hope these videos bring back some of the feeling of living in SoCal. Is there anyone doing similar stuff for St. Paul?
@@etandoesla I'm not aware of any local channels doing similar work. That's an interesting idea.
Hi - I was the first person to move into Gartz Court (unit #1) after the relocation, and just a bit before they were ready - your comment about them being ready after 6 months made me laugh. It was a lot longer. I kept being given a move in date and then it kept being changed. Finally, my landlord told me he had rented my apartment, so they let me move in, because it was mostly ready. I lived there for 8 months before I finally closed escrow (that was cool, they only charged me one month's rent). I lived there for almost 10 years, and then moved across the street. My mom bought it from me and lived there until she died in 2013. When Pasadena Heritage and the city were involved with the move, they were assuming Hunt&Grey, mostly because Kate Gartz used them for many of their projects. At some point I asked either Clare Bogaard or Linda Dishman (I forget) if they ever were able to confirm the architect. I was told they had decided it was probably not Hunt&Grey because if it were there would have been documentation. They had pretty much concluded that there was no architect associated with it at all. This was not uncommon for more modest dwellings, which is what Gartz Court was meant to be. Years later when I started hearing that they were the architects, I did a little digging and found the earliest doc I could find that said they were the architect. Then I found an almost exact text from years early where it said that they might be them. Someone basically copied the text and removed the pesky words that cast doubt on it. BTW, yes, it is in the exact layout from the original location but on a lot that is probably 3 times bigger. Originally, they wanted to use the entire lot and spread out the units but then they learned it would no longer be eligible to be on the National Register of Historic Places. Then they wanted to put all the garages in the back, but one of the neighbors, who was resistant to the project, felt it would encourage crime, so they moved the garages behind their respective units. Thanks for the memories.
Thank you for this treasure trove of information! You must know John Ziegler, who was also there from the beginning. I spoke with him during my visit to Gartz court, plus a couple other current residents. Really interesting to learn that the unit transferred to your mom, I've found a couple more examples of bungalow courts that have stayed in the family. In fact there's a court on Lincoln Ave. whose owner has put up various family members (and other relations) in 3 out of 4 units over the years. People don't tend to leave these things too often. Regarding the Hunt/Grey mystery, it's a confounding one isn't it? Yes, they were a respectable enough firm when Gartz went up that you'd think they'd be mentioned in any documentation. One resident told me an anecdote about a visitor who had lived in a Myron Hunt house for years, and immediately clocked Gartz as the work of Hunt, based on the classical columns that often show up in his entryways. Also - 1910 was very early in the history of Pasadena bungalow courts, most of the people building them that early were respected architects (e.g. Sylvanus Marston & the Heineman Bros.) so it seems strange that Kate Gartz would have left a contractor to do the design, or chosen from a pattern book. The mystery continues!
@@etandoesla Yes, John is the last of the original owners. BTW, after my mom died, I wanted to move back in. We were empty nesters, and it seemed like a good idea, but my husband was not a fan of living with such small closets :-) I guess no one should be saying it was designed by a particular firm/person, unless, in the past decade or so, they have found actual evidence. Those classical columns have a ledge at the top, and for several years I couldn't use my front door because I did not want to disturb the bird nest that kept showing up. It was a fun place to live.
Hi Etan, I manage and own, the Carlyle (1831) designed by Abraham Shapiro .. I would suggest that you knock on doors and ask if filming is permissible in future videos; I think you'd be pleasantly surprised. I would've given you access to the common areas. The pool area is beautiful. Mr. Shaprio loved incorporating rectangles throughout the entire bldg to magnificient effect.
How wonderful to hear from you! There were more than a dozen properties in this historic district and I had a tour of the Philosophical Research Society to get to that day, so unfortunately I couldn’t do any door knocking. But I would love to poke around the Carlyle at some point! It’s one of my favorites on the block. How can I reach you outside of UA-cam?
I helped publish a letter imploring action in about 1990, in the old "Air Classics" newspaper. Looked like Kalitta was using it then.
@@danielmacpherson1630 Thanks for your help in keeping Hangar One around! This hangar has a lot of supporters.
Are you gonna do something on muso and Frank grill?
@@mistervacation23 I love that place, but it’s not on the National Register of Historic Places (yet) so I don’t plan on covering it.
@@etandoesla OK, but I gotta say they have the best steak in town. Napoleon said the best history is an agreed upon lie.
hey, thanks for posting this bit. i'm watching with a tear in my eye; i lived in #11 for a couple of years. had to leave cuz i can't hack life without a/c. that, and the idiot owners were allowing the place to rot. last i knew, city of Pasadena was tussling with them to fix it up to historical landmark specs or something. doesn't look like that happened in this clip. god it was adorable, as a lover of all things craftsman / bungalow, i squeeeee'd when i found it. cried when i left. ah life
@@lisaebrewer Thanks for sharing your story at Bowen! There is a Facebook group dedicated to Bowen Court, they have current and former residents in there, I’m sure they’d love to hear from you!
Hi, Etan. Great video - I used to docent as a part of Friends of Hollyhock House until it was shut down to rebuild after the Northridge quake and love going back from time to time to see. Like the hanger one video, a couple of notes. The furniture in the dining room is original, only seats a few people, and has been carefully protected during the life of the house. The living room furniture is a reproduction of the original design that was funded by the FOHH group in the late 80's, before I started there. It is a beautiful house.
A couple of comments - during WW2, North American Aviation used Hanger One as part of the flight line for the factory that was on the the airport and the other side of Imperial Highway, where they build mostly B25's and early P-51 Mustangs . The planes were staged up and down the runway area while they were being tested and readied for delivery. North American and also Douglas Aircraft used the area around the hanger for staging of aircraft deliveries up to at least the 50's and 60's - my father used to come out to LAX to pick up Navy aircraft from the Douglas factory and fly them back east. there are several places where the flight line can be seen in archival photos from the period. Rockwell International used Hanger One as the operations base for a helicopter fleet that ran in the late 70's and through the 80's that they used to get people around without having to deal with the traffic jams, mostly senior staff and sometimes engineering if there were specific document delivery transfer needs. I worked for Rockwell from 1981 until we were sold to Boeing, and used to ride in the helos from Seal Beach to the San Fernando Valley on a semi regular basis in the early and mid 80's. We would land on the roof of the headquarters building across Imperial Highway (I think Direct TV is in there now) and sometimes land near the hanger to refuel. Rockwell stopped using the hanger when they shut down the factory in the area and moved the headquarters to Seal Beach, however they did put a chunk of money into the Hanger One renovation project before leaving the area in 1993. The factory on the airport side is where the cargo buildings on the east end of the airport are now The factory building complex on the other side of Imperial Highway was at one time rather large. There was a Mach 3 wind tunnel and a bunch of manufacturing buildings on the site. Once the B-1 program was completed the old WW2 era buildings were abandoned. I think the X-31 may have been the last aircraft manufactured there. Northrop Grumman is currently using the old Douglas facility.
These were the backdrop for Charmed
I volunteer at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. Your t-shirt is a hoot. Is there a story behind it?
I've gotten so many questions about that shirt! My family visited the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park last December, and I bought the shirt at the visitor center. They've gotta still have some left, right?
@@etandoesla I'll ask at the park store there. Thanks!
Very nice background story. Thanks Etan!
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