Bank Building on Garden of Allah Site Demolished to Make Way for Gehry Project
Urbanize Los Angeles: “It’s official: Hollywood’s Lytton Savings Building has met the wrecking ball, clearing the biggest obstacle to the […]
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The Last Train Through West Hollywood
P.J’s was a famous rock club on Santa Monica Blvd. at Crescent Heights in West Hollywood. Traktur restaurant and other […]
The Getty Has Curated Ed Ruscha’s Archive of Photos of the Sunset Strip and Hollywood in ’12 Sunsets’
In 1966, decades before Google Street View, Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha mounted a motorized camera in the payload of a truck and set out to photograph every building on the Sunset Strip. He published the assemblage of photos in a grounbreaking book, Every Building on the Sunset Strip that signaled a new approach to art and photography.
City Website Offers Historic Walking Tours
The City of West Hollywood’s Historic Preservation Division has published three local history-related walking tours on its website at wehopreservation.org.
Take a Trip along Sunset Boulevard’s Musical History
Sunset Boulevard’s long relationship with the music industry is spotlighted in this illustrated tour published by the Los Angeles Times.
Video: 1965 Film Offers Rare Look at the Dodge Mansion in West Hollywood
Built in 1916 at 950 North Kings Road, the Dodge House was one of the first architecturally significant residences in West Hollywood. It was later forcibly acquired by the Los Angeles Board of Education, and in 1963 rezoned and put on the auction block. Despite efforts to save it, it was demolished in 1970 and replaced with the 194-unitl Courtyard complex that occupies the site today. During the effort to save the Dodge House, the preservations made this film, which was narrated by the house’s designer, architect Irving Gill.
