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Willard Hampton George (July 20, 1889 – October 24, 1956) was an American furrier based in Los Angeles, California. He designed, created, and supplied furs to the Hollywood movie studios from the 1920s onwards. George designed and created furs for Hollywood actresses including Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, and Rita Hayworth.
The building was designed in 1923 by architect William Douglas Lee and is Lee's first major commission as an independent architect in Los Angeles. The façade has Neoclassical features and articulation that reflect early twentieth-century architecture, more formal than typical for a building intended for manufacturing purposes. The Catalina ...
The nearly 100-year-old Topanga Ranch Motel was destroyed in the blaze on Tuesday night. The motel, initially bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1929, boasted 30 rooms that served as "an ...
The Los Angeles Times printed a dramatic photo of him walking up a concrete stairway that used to lead to a classroom building and now towers over nothing but a pile of rubble.
The city of Los Angeles, a leading centre of the world's fashion industry, moved on Tuesday towards becoming the largest U.S. metropolis to outlaw the sale and manufacture of most fur products ...
Historic photographs and Los Angeles City Directories indicate that tenants within the building included (dates of tenancy are in parentheses); The Owl Drug Co., a San Francisco-based drug store chain (1914–1934), Los Angeles Public Library (1913–1926), Foreman & Clark, a budget-oriented men's clothier (c. 1915–1928), Janss Investment Co ...
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
Therefore, from its completion in 1928 until finally surpassed by the topping off of Union Bank Plaza in 1966, City Hall was the tallest building in Los Angeles and shared the skyline with only a few structures such as the Continental Building, the only property built taller than 150 feet (46 m) prior to the ordinance, and the Richfield Tower ...