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Googie's Coffee Shop (styled googies) was a small restaurant located at 8100 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles next door to the famous Schwab's Pharmacy at the beginning of the Sunset Strip. It was designed in 1949 by architect John Lautner and lent its name to Googie architecture , a genre of modernist design in the 1950s and 60s.
910 S. Los Angeles St. Downtown Los Angeles: Streamline Modern building in Fashion District originally used for garment manufacture 106: Glassell Park Elementary School: Glassell Park Elementary School: April 13, 2007 : 2211 West Avenue 30
St. John's was founded in 1890. The Los Angeles Times reported on the groundbreaking ceremony in a front-page story: . Quite a large number of interested people assembled on foot and in carriages at the corner of Figueroa and Adams streets, at 4 p.m. yesterday, to witness the laying of the corner-stone of St. John's Episcopal Church.
Forthmann House, 2014. National Historic Landmarks: South Los Angeles includes some of the city's most historic sites, including three National Historic Landmarks.The sites receiving this high designation are: (1) the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, built in 1923, and used as the principal site of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games; [2] (2) the Watts Towers (HCM #15), a collection of 17 ...
Johnie's is located across from the May Co. department store, one of Los Angeles' best examples of Streamline Moderne architecture, on the Miracle Mile. The May Co. building is now part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Johnie's was declared a historical landmark by the Los Angeles City Council on November 27, 2013. [3]
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South of the building is the Hollywood Plaza Hotel, built by Walker & Eisen in 1924 [8] and at one point home to silent film star Clara Bow's "It Cafe". [23] Six of the aforementioned buildings are listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments: [24] Hollywood Pantages Theatre (#193) Broadway Hollywood Building (#664) Hollywood Plaza Hotel ...
Philippe's, or "Philippe the Original" (/ f ɪ ˈ l iː p s / fi-LEEPS) [1] [2] is a restaurant located in downtown Los Angeles, California. The restaurant is well known for continuously operating since 1908, making it one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles. It is also renowned for claiming to be the inventor of the French dip sandwich.