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Old Posted Mar 14, 2013, 9:28 PM
tovangar2 tovangar2 is offline
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Thank you so much GW for reminding me of the GrassCrete parking lot at the 7th & Fig Home Savings. It wasn't entirely successful as the most-used areas showed wear and the parking spaces had dead spots from oil drips, but I always really appreciated that someone at least tried to solve the problem of our acres and acres of blazing hot tarmac:

The Cultural Civil War


Thx e_r. One to be grateful for. This came within a whisker of being demolished. I don't even care how badly they queer the scale with new development, as long as it's saved:

http://expression58.org/2011/10/urge...ight-location/

RIP:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...ywood-1913.jpg


Some interesting background on Frederick Roehrig, "the millionaires' architect", and the Hotel Green (he also did Frederick Rindge's manse on S Harvard, extensively covered on this thread)
Architect Walter Neff was born and grew up in a Roehrig-designed home:
http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com...architect.html


http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com...architect.html

Pan Pacific Auditorium, another one I managed to break into. I still have a small piece of mirror liberated from the interior. A great building and an unforgivable loss.

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