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Abandoned Over Hollywood
A series of candelabra–like streetlamps lining the driveway… …to an abandoned property in the hills on land worth tens of millions of dollars. It’s pretty amazing how many you come across that look as though they haven’t been touched in years if not decades.
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Boat House
Scouting in the Hills today, just drove by the famous Boat houses, by architect Harry Gesner in an attempt to maximize plots on steep hillsides. From the LA Conservancy: “Gesner hired Norwegian shipbuilders to help construct the small houses (each less than 1,200 square feet in size), and they reportedly shaped the wood structural members…
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Venice in Los Angeles
I’ll admit, I’m a big fan of the former Saint Viviana‘s church in downtown LA in part because its rare-for-LA Italianate architecture brings me right back to when I lived in Italy… And in part because it’s so similar to the church/library with the catacombs in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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Skid Row Hotels
I’m scouting in and around Skid Row again today, a neighborhood that has been the epicenter for Los Angeles’ homeless population since the 1930s. What’s particularly fascinating to me are the number of hotels (now SROs) that have been in continuous operation since before the dawn of Skid Row. Cities always loudly and proudly proclaim…