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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Packard showroom in Los Angeles, circa 1929. (no address given)
ebay
This is one of the most beautiful showrooms that I've ever seen. Look at the wood beams in that ceiling....
and the ornamentation atop the columns defies classification. Superb!
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Wow, that's very similar to the famous Earle C. Anthony Packard showroom in San Francisco:
packardinfo.com
I think they're Maybeck interiors.
P.S.
lapl
Packard Building, 1000 Hope St at Olympic (1913, addition 1928), Los Angeles
Earle C. Anthony's Packard dealership in downtown Los Angeles.
It was the site of America's first neon sign which simply read "Packard."
(now Packard Lofts LA)
P.P.S. Apparently, according to
Bernard Maybeck, Architect of Elegance by Wilson, Mark, the Los Angeles showroom, housed in a wing attached to the Hope & Olympic building (?) was torn down in the 70's, as was Bernard Maybeck's Oakland showroom for Earle C. Anthony Packard. Sorry, it's gone.
Also:
"1928, Los Angeles, Packard Automobile sales room and office interiors, Earle C. Anthony
nm, Los Angeles
Bernard Maybeck; John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson, Architects.
Richly decorative, the Los Angeles showroom still effectively housed automobiles of the 1970s.
In the Los Angeles Packard building, designed by John and Donald B. Parkinson, Maybeck's work was limited to the interior finishes and the styling of the executive office suite."
-http://www.verlang.com/sfbay0004ref_bm_11.html
2006 LAT article w/ pix:
http://www.veniceinvestments.com/pdf/reopens.pdf
Automobile dealer Earle C. Anthony's family home 1927 by architect Bernard Maybeck | 3431 Waverly Drive | Ivanhoe Hills Los Angeles
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/family_home.html
America's first neon sign, made for Earle C Anthony's LA dealership, 1923, by Georges Claude (the neon sign inventor), Paris:
thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com