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Originally Posted by Godzilla
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Revisiting Surfridge gives me a chance to post photos of two more houses lost there to LAX . . . .
1959 photo of 135 Epinard:
http://www.uncovertheroof.com/2011/0...ovepart-2.html
114 Ellen Street aka Anna Zacsek Beach House, completed 1938, designed by R.M. Schindler:
http://austincubed.blogspot.com/p/modern-homes.html
[photo from
RM Schindler: Works and Projects by Judith Sheine (Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1998)]
Southern California Architectural History (
http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/)
Anna seems to have been highly involved in the design of the house; their correspondence in regard to the house begins with a letter from Anna to Schindler saying, “Please wait on my plans for the house until I can come over with my photographs so that you may see what sort of things I desire.”
The construction of the house itself was filled with a spirited and oft-contentious battle of wills between two strong headed Eastern Europeans. They traded letters 30 items long detailing every aspect of the house from the design of the structure itself to a decorative frog that Schindler had confiscated from the house. Anna requested that Schindler return the frog to which he responded that it was “in very bad taste and I protest (its) use in a building of my design.” -- Text from:
http://cityplanning.lacity.org/Staff...-2011-2619.pdf; interesting info about Anna Zacsek there.
Southern California Architectural History (
http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/)
According to the 1940 census, Mel Blanc lived across the street at 117 Ellen. I wonder if Anna and Mel talked much?