A Photography Project
The Academy Theatre in Inglewood opened on November 9, 1939. The 1156-seat theater was designed by S. Charles Lee in the Streamline Moderne style. The theater became an important movie preview and premiere location.
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Stoney Point is a prominent sandstone outcropping of the Chatsworth Formation in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley. The 22-acre City of Los Angeles Stoney Point Park established in 1982 has since expanded to 76 acres.
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The 12 story tower at the corner of Hollywood and Highland, the Hollywood First National and later Security Pacific, was built in 1927 and opened 1928. At 183 feet in height, it was the tallest building in Los Angeles from 1927 to 1932.
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UCLA Nimoy Theater in Westwood originally opened as the UCLAN Theatre on Christmas Day, 1940. Called the Crest Westwood when acquired by UCLA in 2018, the renovated, restored and renamed theater opened in September 2023.
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Holmby Hall, built in 1929, was the first shop building in Westwood Village. The building is comprised of 5 two- and three-story segments anchored at the southeast corner by a 110-foot tall octagonal clock tower.
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The Hay Tree in Paramount is the only reminder of the area’s busy hay and dairy industry in the mid-1900s. The camphor tree, planted in the late 19th century, is preserved in a corner of the Paramount Civic Center Plaza.
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Brothers Edwin and Harold Janss developed Westwood Village immediately south of the UCLA campus. In 1929, they commissioned the architectural firm of Allison & Allison to design the headquarters of the Janss Investment Company.
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