Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The original hotel on the site was built by General Marshall C. Wentworth, a US Civil War veteran, [1] [2] and designed by Charles Frederick Whittlesey in the Spanish Mission Revival-style. [3] It opened in February 1907 as the Hotel Wentworth, but the structure was only partially complete, with the first four stories finished and a temporary roof.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
June McCarroll (June 30, 1867 – March 30, 1954) is credited by the California Department of Transportation with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line to separate lanes of highway traffic, although this claim is disputed by the Federal Highway Administration [1] and the Michigan Department of Transportation [2] as two Michigan men painted centerlines before her. [3]
Whittlesey moved to San Francisco in 1907 and worked mainly there and in Los Angeles, becoming known for his early work in reinforced concrete. Whittlesey's son Austin C. Whittlesey (1893–1950) was also an architect, apprenticed in the office of Bertram Goodhue for seven years, and was active in Southern California in the 1930s.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
In the mid-to-late 1970s, Nahan began working in the movie industry, always playing a sports commentator and usually appearing as himself. Aside from the Rocky series, Nahan made a brief appearance in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), in which he interviews the character Jeff Spicoli in a dream sequence; this scene was parodied in "Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer" with a fictional "Stu Brewster ...
Mailing's was built in 1930 and designed by S. Charles Lee, the same architect who designed the Los Angeles Theatre that this building shares its northern wall with. In 1979, when the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, both Mailing's and Los Angeles Theater were listed as separate contributing properties in the district.
Noah Scurry, a 17-year-old basketball star at his Philadelphia high school, died after he was shot on the way to school. According to CBS and NBC Philadelphia, Scurry and his mother were on their ...