01297 Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, completed in 2003, became the new home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The structure bears similarities to Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01297 (digital file from LC-HS503-426) 01298 The striking stainless steel curves of the (2003) Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are the creation of architect Frank Gehry. The complex covers 3.6 acres in the heart of the city's downtown cultural district, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01298 (digital file from LC-HS503-427) 01300 The (2003) Walt Disney Music Hall, home to the Los Angeles Phllharmonic, features an acoustically superior auditorium paneled in hardwood. The Disney family contributed more than $100 million to the project, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01300 (digital file from LC-HS503-428) 01301 Architect Thom Mayne's (2000) Diamond Ranch High School in Diamond Bar, California, near Pomona, sits on a seventy-two acre hillside campus. Two rows of buildings are divided into clusters, separated by academic discipline, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01301 (digital file from LC-HS503-429) 01302 The Morphosis architects' Diamond Ranch High School (2000) near Pomona, California, features radical angles and cantilevered classrooms. It has been described by admirers as "Utopian" in design, and by critics as "distorted."|04/07/05|01302 (digital file from LC-HS503-430) 01303 Irregularities in form are the norm at the (2000) Diamond Ranch High School, set on a windswept hillside near Pomona, California. The unconventional campus is divided into clusters according to academic subjects and separated by a "monumental stairway."|04/07/05|01303 (digital file from LC-HS503-431) 01304 Morphosis Architects describe "fragmented forms" of their Diamond Ranch High School (2000) near Pomona, California, "set tightly on either side of a long central 'canyon' or sidewalk that cuts through the face of the hillside like a geologic fault line."|04/07/05|01304 (digital file from LC-HS503-432) 01305 In 1921, Frank Lloyd Wrighil designed a residence, studio, and garden estate for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall on Sunset Boulevard, with a commanding view of the Hollywood Hills. The buildings, now owned by the City of Los Angeles, suggest Mayan temples, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01305 (digital file from LC-HS503-433) 01306 The majestic (1928) Ventura Theatre in Ventura, California, exemplifies a restoration boom that has turned downtown into a cultural district in that seaside community. Once a movie palace with a Wurlitzer organ, the theater is now a concert venue, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01306 (digital file from LC-HS503-434) 01307 Downtown Ventura, California, one of the cities that boasts a distinctive "California look" -- with Beaux-Arts and Deco buildings dating to the 1910s -- has been extensively redeveloped as a cultural district, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01307 (digital file from LC-HS503-435) 01308 The 1929 Holmby Hall, in the heart of Los Angeles's Westwood Village -- a college town inside a giant metropolis -- was once a U.C.L.A. women's dormitory. Redeveloped at the turn of the 21st Century, it is now known locally as the "Clock Tower."|04/07/05|01308 (digital file from LC-HS503-436) 01309 The Spanish Moderne Mann Village Theater (1931), long called the Fox Westwood Village Theater, in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, near U.C.L.A., often hosts movie premieres. It was one of a series of Fox theaters built during Hollywood's glory days, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01309 (digital file from LC-HS503-437) 01310 The small (1937) Mann Bruin Theater in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, near U.C.L.A., is famous for its wrap-around marquee. The theater once had murals that glowed in the dark; they have been painted over, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01310 (digital file from LC-HS503-438) 01311 Architect William Gage created Beverly Hills, California's, Spanish Renaissance-style City Hall in 1932. When the building was extensively remodeled in the 1980s, its rich architectural details were preserved and carefully cleaned, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01311 (digital file from LC-HS503-439) 01312 Long Beach, California, is a melange of architectural landmarks and utilitarian condos. Villa Riviera, left, opened in 1929 as a luxury "own your own" apartment. It was once Southern California's second-tallest building, behind only L.A. City Hall, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01312 (digital file from LC-HS503-440) 01313 The (1935) Darkroom Store on Los Angeles's Wilshire Boulevard was imaginatively designed to fit the occupant. Sheathed in black vitrolite with silver trim, this Streamline Moderne building is now a restaurant, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01313 (digital file from LC-HS503-441) 01314 The (1936) Merle Norman Building iin Los Angeles suggests an ocean liner. Now an office-supplies store, the building served as a ritzy salon for the cosmetics empress. Her products were manufactured upstairs, where a bank-type vault held their formulas, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01314 (digital file from LC-HS503-442) 01315 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art complex, which opened in 1964 and later added an entrance building, holds more than 150,000 works of art. The museum best especially known for its collection of Japanese art, housed in its own pavilion, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01315 (digital file from LC-HS503-443) 01316 The 1940 Streamline Moderne May Company Department Store Building in Los Angeles is best known for its gold corner tower, which has been compared to a perfume bottle. When the company left in the 1980s, it was purchased by the county art museum, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01316 (digital file from LC-HS503-444) 01317 Watts Towers, loacted in a crumbling Los Angeles neighborhood that was rocked by rioting in 1965, were built from tile, china, steel, iron, and glass bottles by an Italian immigrant tile-setter, Simon Rodia, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01317 (digital file from LC-HS503-445) 01318 The "California Modern" Bethlehem Baptist Church, built in 1944 in the Compton area of Los Angeles, is Vienna-born architect R.M. Schlindler's only church. Schlindler, who trained under Frank Lloyd Wright, designed building throughout his adopted city, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01318 (digital file from LC-HS503-446) 01319 Robert Derrah's 1936 "Crossroads of the World," on Sunset Boulevard, was Hollywood's first shopping center. Its centerpiece building resembles an ocean liner, and its tower was so remarkable, Walt Disney copied it at the entrance to Disney World,|04/07/05|01319 (digital file from LC-HS503-447) 01320 Oil heiress Aline Barnsdall donated Hollyhock House and its estate, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1920s, to the City of Los Angeles. Now an arts center, the main building was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 1994 and was restored, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01320 (digital file from LC-HS503-448) 01321 The five bronze-colored glass towers of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel comnmand the cityscape of Los Angeles. Built from 1974-76 from John Portman and Associates' design, the hotel overlooks five freeways. Its atrium lobby soars forty stories high, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01321 (digital file from LC-HS503-449) 01322 Rae's Restaurant, on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, Calfiornia, is a classic L.A. omelettes-and-burgers diner from the 1950s. The website LA.COM commented that Rae's was one of the few such eateries that had been fixed up but not "ruinovated."|04/07/05|01322 (digital file from LC-HS503-450) 01323 Victoria Gardens in the Los Angeles "Inland Empire" suburb of Rancho Cucamonga, is a sprawling shopping center "plus." In addition to shops and department stores, it features a "cultural center" that includes a library and performing-arts theater, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01323 (digital file from LC-HS503-451) 01324 The Wiltern (formerly Warner Brothers Western) Theater on Wishire Boulevard in Los Angeles, completed in 1931, combines an Art Deco theater and an office tower. The property was extensively renovated in 1985, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01324 (digital file from LC-HS503-452) 01325 The United Artists Theatre iis one of the great movie palaces on Broadway -- not in New York but in Los Angeles, which once had the world's largest concentration of theaters. Designed to suggest New Orleans' French Quarter, it became an unorthodox church, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01325 (digital file from LC-HS503-453) 01326 Los Angeles's $375-million arena, Staples Center, ambitiously calls itself the "Sports and Entertainment Center of the World." Designed by NBBJ Architects, the building -- which rose in 18 months and opened in 1999 -- includes almost 200 luxury suites, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01326 (digital file from LC-HS503-454) 01327 After more than twenty years of promises, downtown Los Angeles in the first decade of the 21st Century finally delivered on a series of loft studios and apartments, including these Douglas Building Lofts, built in 1898 at Spring and 3rd Streets, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01327 (digital file from LC-HS503-455) 01328 An overpass on Imperial Highway in south-central Los Angeles offers a bird's-eye view of the city's vast rail yards. Much of the rail traffic emanates from the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach to the south, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01328 (digital file from LS-HS503-456) 01329 Redevelopment, which came later to Long Beach, California, than to many other urban areas, exploded in the first years of the 21st Century, with the construction (or retrofitting) of buildings such as this as condominium residences, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01329 (digital file from LC-HS503-457) 01330 Even gritty industrial and warehouse areas on the southern edge of downtown Los Angeles saw significant redevelopment in the first decade of the 21st Century. This 1924 building, once a thriving toy factory, became a luxury condominium, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01330 (digital file from LC-HS503-458) 01331 Much of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and Los Angeles has -- like this high-rise tower -- "gone condo." Included in the parade of buildings are some of Hollywood's elegant former hotels, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01331 (digital file from LC-HS503-459) 01332 Padadena, California's, Police Department Building, completed in 1990, is notable for its spiraling, scroll-like volutes on its roof. A small sculpture garden adds a dollop of serenity to the environment, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01332 (digital file from LC-HS503-460) 01333 Architect Robert A. M. Stern chose a bold design for the new Pasadenda, California, Police Department Building, which opened in 1990. Critics uniformly praised the building as strong yet complementary to the city's classic City Hall in "Old Pasadena."|04/07/05|01333 (digital file from LC-HS503-461) 01334 Padadena, California's, 1938 Italian Romanesque Old Post Office features light relief on the exterior and, inside, stunning marble walls paid for by city residents, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01334 (digital file from LC-HS503-462) 01335 What was once the Hotel Green, a world-class resort in Pasadena, California, is now an apartment and condominium project. Completed in 1903, the Moorish and Spanish Colonial monolith, in the words of one website, "rises up like an Errol Flynn movie set."|04/07/05|01335 (digital file from LC-HS503-463) 01336 In early 2005, ground had just been broken for Anaheim, California's, ambitious "Platinum Triangle," a high-density urban evelopment that envisioned more than nine thousand dwelling units and seven million square feet of office and commercial space, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01336 (digital file from LC-HS503-464) 01337 Newport Beach, in Orange County, is one of California's most sophisticated beach communities. Many of its more than 75,000 residents live in condominiums such as this. The daily population more than doubles in summertimeas visitors crowd the beaches, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01337 (digital file from LC-HS503-465) 01338 The fourteen-story, Beaux-Arts Security Trust and Savings Building opened in Long Beach in 1924 during a boom that saw several high-rise buildings appear in the city. The S&L was sold to a series of banks, then became a restaurant, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01338 (digital file from LC-HS503-466) 01339 Long Beach, California's, $43-million postmodern Federal Court House on Ocean Boulevard was completed in 1994. It contains private as well as federal offices, and the area's federal couthouse, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01339 (digital file from LC-HS503-467) 01340 The 1929 Spanish Revival Chapman Park Market fills an entire block in Los Angeles's MacArthur Park West area. Anticipating Southern California's automobile economy, the building featured a central auto park in a courtyard, surrounded by retail stores, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01340 (digital file from LC-HS503-468) 01341 Theatre designer Joe Musil helped create the Silver Fox, a gay bar and nightclub in Long Beach, California, out of a nondescipt building in 1981. At night, the marquee and pedestals turn a series of colors, reminiscent of the LAX airport pylons, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01341 (digital file from LC-HS503-469) 01342 Designed in 1939 by Robert V. Derrah, Los Angeles's Streamline Moderne Coca-Cola Bottling Plant affects an oceanliner, complete with a flying bridge, promenade deck and portholes. The shell was built around four older buildings, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01342 (digital file from LC-HS503-470) 01343 John M. Cooper's 1932 Streamlline Moderne Roxie was the last great movie palace downtown Los Angeles. Unlike others on L.A.'s Broadway, it was designed for motion pictures, rather than vaudeville shows, from the beginning. A store took over the lobby, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01343 (digital file from LC-HS503-471) 01344 This 1895 Irvine/Byrne Building on South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles was in the process of conversion to "CityView Lofts" in 2005. The building was designed by Sumner Hunt, one of the city's most prominent architects, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01344 (digital file from LC-HS503-472) 01345 The 1918 Million Dollar Theater, which did indeed cost well over $1 million, was one of America's first great movie palaces. Albert C. Martin's Churriguresque exterior was impressive, but the baroque interior, by William L. Woolett, was even more so, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01345 (digital file from LC-HS503-473) 01346 Opened in 1917, the open-air Grand Central Market, on the ground floor of the elegant Homer Laughlin Building, in Los Angeles was still bustling with customers, looking for fresh produce, fish, meat, and international specialties in the 21st Century, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01346 (digital file from LC-HS503-474) 01347 In a quiet pocket of Los Angeles, the National Homeless Plan Campaign erected a "dome village" of twenty "omni-sphere shapes" that opened in 1993. Designed as a way station between true homelessness and a re-entry into the became known as "Justiceville."|04/07/05|01347 (digital file from LC-HS503-475) 01348 The 1910 B.P.O.E. (benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) Monument is one of many imposing memorials and mausoleums at Woodlawn Cemetery, which is owned by the City of Santa Monica, California. A number of film and TV actors are interred here, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01348 (digital file from LC-HS503-476) 01349 Several yacht clubs call the marina at Alamitos Bay -- dividing Orange and Los Angeles counties -- home in Long Beach, California. There are almost two thousand slips in the winding marina, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01349 (digital file from LC-HS503-477) 01350 The terra cotta and copper-trimmed Bullocks-Wilshire Department Store -- once called the "Cathedral of Commerce" -- opened on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1928. It was more ornate inside.. The main entrance, around back, faced the parking lot!|04/07/05|01350 (digital file from LC-HS503-478) 01351 Lower Grand Avenue in Los Angeles became a hotbed of renovation (into condos and lofts) in the early years of the 21st Century. Hot, doughty apartment buildings were emptied of tenants, gutted, and sold to people eager to escape L.A. freeway commutes, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01351 (digital file from LC-HS503-479) 01352 The circular International Tower building is one of many condominiums in Long Beach, California. It has often been the backdrop for Hollywood movies, including a scene in "Lethal Weapon" in which a girl jumps to her death from one of its balconies, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01352 (digital file from LC-HS503-480) 01353 Lighted pylons along Century Boulevard and the airport gatway became a symbol of Los Angeles International Airport in 2000. Ranging from 25 to 100 feet high, the steel truss and translucent glass pylons cycle through 300 color variations in three hours, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01353 (digital file from LC-HS503-481) 01355 Beverly Hills and the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles are laced with wide "millionaires' rows," lined with 100-foot-high palms trees, lush hedges, and manicured lawns. Early postcards of similar scenes show the palms at about half this height, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01355 (digital file from LC-HS503-482) 01357 On June 20, 1947, the notorious Las Vegas mob boss Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was assassinated in this house -- his 35-room family home in Beverly Hills, California -- allegedly for skimming from investors in his Flamingo Hotel. He was just 42 years old, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01357 (digital file from LC-HS503-483) 01358 Sometimes called "the first drive-in market," the Chapman Park Market, on West 8th Street in Los Angeles, catered to shoppers who drove to get groceries. An entire central courtyard was set aside for automobile parking, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01358 (digital file from LC-HS503-484) 01359 Condominiums line the beach in upscale Newport Beach in Orange County, California. The tony beach town attracts upscale boaters, shoppers, and, during its International Film Festival, movie aficianados -- as well as average beachlovers, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01359 (digital file from LC-HS503-485) 01360 Once reputed to be the finest movie palace between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Ventura Theatre opened in 1928 in Ventura. Now caled the "Majestic Ventura Theatre," it no longer shows films but books musical concerts and theatrical productions, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01360 (digital file from LC-HS503-486) 01361 This is one of many South Grand Avenue apartment buildings in Los Angeles that was part of a frenzy of loft redevelopment. The area had long been touted as a "natural" for lofts and condos, but not until the first years of the 21st Century did it happen, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01361 (digital file from LC-HS503-487) 01362 After years of deterioration and promises of revial, downtown Los Angeles in the new millennium finally exploded with new developments and seized an identity (L.A. was no longer the butt of "thirty suburbs in search of a city jokes), 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01362 (digital file from LC-HS503-488) 01364 Mann's (formerly Grauman's) Chinese Theatre is the ultimate Hollyood tourist attraction, with crowds often jamming the patio to inspect handprints of movie stars. The opening of Grauman's in 1927 was the most spectacular theater opening in film history, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01364 (digital file from LC-HS503-489) 01365 The mausoleum, completed in 1927 at Santa Monica, California's 26,6-acre Woodlawn cemetery, is rich in detail. The City of Santa Monica has owned the cemetery since 1897 and the mausoleum since 1972. Many silent film stars are entombed in the mausoleum, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01365 (digital file from LC-HS503-490) 01366 Beverly Hills' Spanish Renaissance City Hall, designed by William Gage, was finished in 1932, while the Hollywood film industry thrived and the nation sank into a Great Depression. The building's eight-story towe features a tiled dome and gildede cupola, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01366 (digital file from LC-HS503-491) 01367 The elaborate detail of the 1932 Beverly Hills City Hall was an inspiration for the city's new civic center, completed in 1990. An extensive renovation and refurbishing of City Hall in the 1980s increased office space by 18,000 square feet, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01367 (digital file from LC-HS503-492) 01368 The mausoleum of Emma and Louis Grigsby, sheaded in black slate, is a highlight of Angeles-Rosedale Cemetery -- the first in Los Angeles open to all races and creeds. This is one of several Egyptian pyramid-themed crypts in the park, which opened in 1884, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01368 (digital file from LC-HS503-493) 01369 The (1964) Dorothy Chandler Pavilion -- named for the philanthropist wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times -- is home to the Los Angeles Opera and the largest of three buildings in downtown Los Angeles's Performing Arts Center, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01369 (digital file from LC-HS503-494) 01370 The Ahmanson Center Theater and circular Mark Taper Forum, both of which opened in 1967, are two of three components of the Los Angeles Performing Arts Center (more commonly called the Music Center). More lavish musicals play the larger Ahmanson, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01370 (digital file from LC-HS503-495) 01371 The 1956 Capitol Records tower, a Hollywood landmark, fittingly resembles a stack of phonograph records. Home to the company's studios and offices, the thirteen-story, reinforced-concrete structure was the world's first round office building, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01371 (digital file from LC-HS503-496) 01372 Folk artist Simon Rodia's idiosyncratic Watts Towers, consisting of nine separate sculptures in an impoverished section of Los Angeles, were painstakingly contructed from a mosaic of neighborhood materials over thirty-four years, beginning in 1921, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01372 (digital file from LC-HS503-497) 01374 The Spanish Revival Chapman Market opened in 1929 on West 6th Street in Los Angeles. The world's first drive-through grocery store, it served the wealthy families of the city's Fremont Place, Windsor Square, and Mancock Park neighborhoods, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01374 (digital file from LC-HS503-498) 01375 Jonathan Borofsky's impish "Ballerina Clown" decorates the (1988) Renaissance Building in Venice, California. The Building, by Johannes Van Tilburg & Partners, combines first-floor retail space and upstairs housing, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01375 HS-LS503-499) 01376 Venice, California's, canals -- intended as a copy of their namesake in Italy -- bisect an upscale neighborhood. Developers paved over many of the canals, which gondoliers once plied in this "Coney Island of the Pacifric."|04/07/05|01376 (digital file from LC-HS503-500) 01378 A 1993 addition more than doubled the size of the Los Angeles Convention Center, whose glass roofs are a notable feature. The building features almost 875,000 square feet of exhibition and meeting space, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01378 (digital file from LC-HS503-501) 01379 Citicorp Plaza's fifty-three-story 777 Tower, by Cesar Pelli and Associates, was completed on South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles in 1991. The building features a reflective white-metal skin and series of towers that seem to fold into one another, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01379 (digital file from LC-HS503-502) 01380 The brightly painted 1927 Mayan Theater in Los Angeles was originally a light gray. The paint job accentuates the allure of Francisco Comeja's seven "warrior-priests" looming above the entrance. Originally a musical-comedy venue, it became a salsa club, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01380 (digital file from LC-HS503-503) 01381 Architect Bertram Goodhue simplified his Spanish Colonial design for the Los Angeles Public Library, which opened in downtown's heyday in 1926. Adopting touches from ancient civilizations, Goodhue also gave the building a modified skyscraper look, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01381 (digital file from LC-HS503-504) 01382 The parking structure at The Pike at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, California, rose in the early 2000s in a beachfront area known as The Pike for obscure reasons. This is an eighteen-acre "entertainment development" near the city's famous aquarium, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01382 (digital file from LC-HS503-505) 01383 The Romanesque 1893 Bradbury Building on South Broadway iLos Angeles, designed by novice architect George W. Wyman, was a downtown sweatshop. The modest facade conceals an incredible interior of wrought-iron balconies and glass skylights, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01383 (digital file from LC-HS503-506) 01384 An unimposing colonial tower replaced a faux windmill at Los Angeles' Farmers Market, whose buildings appeared in the mid-1930s in an field known as "Gilmore's Island." The market, which flaunted California's luscious produce, became world-famous, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01384 (digital file from LC-HS503-507) 01385 Los Angeles may have the nation's heaviest concentrations of "programmatic" businesses whose form follows their function. The Tail-o-the-Pup, shaped like the hot dogs it sells, appeared in 1938 on one corner of Beverly Boulevard and moved to another, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01385 (digital file from LC-HS503-508) 01386 Cesar Pelli's Pacific Design Center on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, completed in 1988, overwhelms a neighborhood of small shops and restaurants to the point that it has sometimes been called "the Blue Whale."|04/07/05|01386 (digital file from LC-HS503-509) 01387 The 1988 Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, by acclaimed architect Cesar Pelli, dominates the West Hollywood landscape. The cobalt-colored complex is a showcase for dozens of furnishings, from architectural adornnents to wall coverings, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01387 (digital file from LC-HS503-510) 01388 The 1908 Gamble House in Pasadena, California, was designed by Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene as a retirement residence for a Proctor & Gamble executive and his wife. It is a classic example of American "arts and crafts" architecture, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01388 (digital file from LC-HS503-511) 01389 Myron Hunt's 1927 Spanish Renaissance Pasadena, California, Central Library. It was the first building in the city's Civic Center. The library's collection, which preceded this building, began with a collection of rare books on the history of California, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01389 (digital file from LC-HS503-512) 01390 Pasadena, California's, 1927 Spanish Renaissance Central Library was the creation of Myron Hunt at a time when Pasadena was a world-famous resort, full of great hotels and civic buildings that were a paean to the City Beautiful movement, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01390 (digital file from LC-HS503-513) 01391 This Art Deco building, abandoned at the time of this photograph in 2005, looks like it might have been a car dealership or drive-in restaurant. Instead, it was one of two large, thriving laundries near the great Santa Fe Railroad Station, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01391 (digital file from LC-HS503-514) 01392 The 1000 Wilshire Building, completed in 1987, has been called "Los Angeles's most assertive Postmodern building," though it is by no means the tallest office tower. Its gabled ends and constrating banding stand out as it looms above the Harbor Freeway, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01392 (digital file from LC-HS503-515) 01393 Interweaving stainless steel curves mark the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the 2,265-seat auditorium replaced the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2003, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01393 (digital file from LC-HS503-516) 01394 Postmodernist architect Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is clad in more than forty-nine miles' worth of stainless-steel panels, in more than 12,000 pieces that took 30,000 separate architectural drawings to design, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01394 (digital file from LC-HS503-517) 01395 At the same time that many new skyscrapers were rising in downtown Los Angeles in the late-20th and early-21st centuries, the city and developers carefully preserved or rehabilitated many historic buildings and at long last converted several into lofts, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01395 (digital file from LC-HS503-518) 01396 Welton Becket and Associates' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic until it moved into the stunning Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003. It remained the home of the Los Angeles Opera and Music Center Dance company, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01396 (digital file from LC-HS503-519) 01397 This little 1932 on Hill Street in Los Angeles, was the original faux-log cabins among a chain of sixty-two White Log Coffee Shops that owner Kenneth Bemis opened on the West Coast. This one later morphed into a burger joint, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01397 (digital file from LC-HS503-520) 01398 The glittering, 32-story bronze cylinders of John Portman and Associates' Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles connect to other buildings via pedestrian skywalks. This colossal complex immediately dominated the city skyline when it opened in 1976, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01398 (digital file from LC-HS503-521) 01399 The Farmers' Market of Los Angeles may be the world's most famous, or at least best-appointed and most-visited, such facility in the nation. When it opened in the mid-1930s, a windmill loomed above the stalls; it was later replaced by a colonial tower, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01399 (digital file from LC-HS503-522) 01400 Cesar Pelli's Pacific Design Center on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, California, which evolved from 1975 to 1989, was a controversial colossus. Many critics felt its scale and cobalt and kelly-green colors overwhelmed the neighborhood, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01400 (digital file from LC-HS503-523) 01401 The 1948 St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Glendale, California, was architect Carleton Winslow's last building. His Spanish Colonial style is famously evident in several Balboa Park buildings erected for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01401 (digital file from LC-HS503-524) 01402 A 135-foot clock and observation tower dominates Los Angeles's Union Passenger Terminal, completed in 1939 as perhaps the last great railroad temple in the United States. Because of its subway and light-rail facilities, the terminal remains vibrant, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01402 (digital file from LC-HS503-525) 01403 A wonderland of wrought-iron stairs, lacy elevator shafts, courtyards and skylights opens within the 1893 landmark Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles. Architect George Wyman accepted the project only after a ghostly O.K. from his dead brother, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01403 (digital file from LC-HS503-526) 01404 The abandoned (1932) Koffee Pot (originally Hot Cha) caf‚ in Long Beach appeared to be on its last legs in 2005. Note the coffee-pot-shaped clerestory. "Fantasy architecture" that mirrors a building's function was especially hot in Southern California, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01404 (digital file from LC-HS503-527) 01405 The mosaic above the doorway of St. Anthony's (1952) Roman Catholic Church in Long Beach, California, depicts Pope Pius XII witnessing the assumption of the Virgin. Note the black bunting, marking the 2005 death of another pope, John Paul II, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01405 (digital file from LC-HS503-528) 01406 The name applied to a new (in 2005) shopping and entertainment complex at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach dates to "the Pike," a longtime amusement area and entertainment pavilion on the beachfront -- which closed in 1979, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01406 (digital file from LC-HS503-529) 01407 In 1990, Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC) opened an outlet in the "programmatic" architectural style on Western Avenue in Los Angeles. Restaurants shaped like chicken buckets are rare, so, increasingly, are images of KFC's founder, Col. Harlan Sanders, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01407 (digital file from LC-HS503-530) 01408 Architect Donald Gibbs's blue, $22-million, eighteen-story "Pyramid" athletic facility, which opened in 1994, was a late addition to California State University's campus in Long Beach. Since then, pyramid logos have appeared all over campus, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01408 (digital file from LC-HS503-531) 01409 The (1954) sign, as much as the baked goods, is the lure at Randy's Donuts, in Inglewood, California. One roadside-attractions website notes that because of its proximity to an L.A. freeway, the sign gets frequent "smog and soot scrubs."|04/07/05|01409 (digital file from LC-HS503-532) 01410 S. Charles Lee's unusual spiral, 125-foot tower announcing the (1939) Academy Theatre in Inglewood -- the close-in Los Angeles suburb beneath the LAX takeoff and landing path -- was once aglow in blue neon. The building became a church, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01410 (digital file from LC-HS503-533) 01411 An old-fashioned merry-go-round has long been an attraction at the Santa Monica Pier, which opened in 1909. Its entertainment arcade included the La Monica Ballroom, an evolving assortment of thrill rides, and a series of Wurlitzer organs, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01411 (digital file from LC-HS503-534) 01412 "Grot" is a tiny antique and furniture store that also carries local "craftsman oddities" on South Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach, California, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01412 (digital file from LC-HS503-535) 01413 This buiding at Washington Blvd. and Culver Ave. in Los Angeles is typical of many in Southern California -- nondescript in a way, not identifying of the owner or tenant, yet carefully painted. Trees above indicate there may be a rooftop patio there, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01413 (digital file from LC-HS503-536) 01414 In 2005, construction of a new development diverted some attention from the Twin Towers of the ABC Entertainment Center on the glittering "Avenue of the Stars" in the Century City area of Los Angeles, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01414 (digital file from LC-HS503-537) 01415 Seemingly ever-growing, Century City is a 176-acre commercial and residential district in western Los Angeles. Movie and TV studios, high-rise business offices, top law firms, shiny hotels, and numerous theaters attract Angelinos and tourists alike, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01415 (digital file from LC-HS503-538) 01416 Generations of TV viewers came to know City Hall from the long-running show "Dragnet," whose announcer intoned, "This is the city. Los Angeles, Caifornia." Opened in 1928, its sloping, twenty-eight-story tower was the city's tallest into the 1950s, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01416 (digital file from LC-HS503-539) 01417 The 1958 International-style Los Angeles County Courthouse features Albert Stewart statues above its Grand Avenue Entrance: "Mosaic Law," "Magna Carta," and "Declaration of Independence," reflecting three great legal traditions, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01417 (digital file from LC-HS503-540) 01418 In 1923, Frank Lloyd Wright completed the "Hollyhock House," gardens, and an onsite theater on Olive Hill off Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, for Aline Barnsdall, wife of a Pennsylvania oilman. Wright called the style "California Romanza."|04/07/05|01418 (digital file from LC-HS503-541) 01419 At first glance from afar, the Los Angeles Ellerbe Becket Architects' Department of Public Works' Central Distribution Center in Los Angleles looks like a giant paint can. But the 1989 building is not round. Semicircular bays obscure the buildings, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01419 (digital file from LC-HS503-542) 01420 In 1923, Los Angeles publisher Harry Chandler and movie star Mack Sennett developed houses in the Hollywood Hills. The tract's promotional sign, each of whose letters stands four stories high, read "Hollywoodland." It was shortened in the 1940s, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01420 (digital file from LC-HS503-543) 01421 An old pavilion roof and cupola await their fate in a redeveloping section of Long Beach, California, near the streets that are blocked each year for the city's famous automobile road race, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01421 (digital file from LC-HS503-544)