Great memories
b b! Enjoy your new book :-) The only part I could never get through is McWilliams' section on cults. I know there was a craze for them here at one time, but I just don't find them interesting.
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Originally Posted by FredH
Interesting apartment building in the heart of Westwood Village:
lapl
I wonder if the residents are still allowed to use the "roof-garden sundecks". Doesn't look like it.
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We also have Neutra's Emerson Middle School, 1650 Selby Avenue, 90024, in Westwood (directly north of the LDS temple) built by the PWA in '37-'38 on the old Harold Lloyd lot:
national archives and records administration/neg p-106
An icon of modernism, it's been published extensively all over the world.
Unfortunately it's been junked up with with some unsightly remodel and upgrade efforts, particulaly on the interior. "
The first-floor classrooms have large, 15-foot glass and steel sliding doors that open to extend the spaces to the outside, while the second-floor classrooms have stairs leading to rooftop terraces" (
http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/pr...os-angeles-ca/) Neither are in use any longer:-(
Rebranding Junior Highs as "middle schools" resulted in Neutra's great 30s signage being discarded and replaced by generic lettering. The porch forms a "smoking balcony" for staff (still in use last I checked).
gsv
Marilyn Monroe was a student at EMS 1939-1941.
EMS, sandwiched between RC SPA church and school and the LDS temple (the footprint of the old Harold Lloyd studio lot):
google maps
All EMS's playing fields, baseball diamond, track, etc have been covered in asphalt.
EMS is lucky to have a Kay Neilsen mural, "Canticle of the Sun" (1948) in the library, one of only three of the Danish master's works in LA:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2...l_students.php
The mural shows a figure, representing the sun, passing over a landscape where exquisitely-detailed flowers are opening.
(sorry it's such a terrible pic)
More on Neilsen:
http://www.library.pitt.edu/librarie...rs/nielsen.htm