A Photography Project
Santa Barbara was on the leading edge of the “historic preservation wave” in the early 1960s. Residential structures in and around the City’s designated and proposed historic districts date from the late 19th century into the 1960s.
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The City of Upland created a formal Fire Department in 1911; the first fire house in the city was built in 1915. The first motorized fire engine was purchased at this time as well. Services were moved to a new Fire Headquarters facility in 1969.
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The 2-story Cosmo’s Village, a mini-mall in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles, was built by the architectural firm Stanton, Reed and Hibbard in 1930 as the seventh location for the Howard Auto Company, a leading So Cal Buick dealership
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Built in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration, Old Placentia City Hall was designed in the popular-in-the-period Spanish Colonial Revival style. It housed the City’s Administrative Offices, a fire station and a police station.
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Plaza Firehouse, in the heart of historic Los Angeles, was built in 1884. Fire House No. 1, as it is also called, was the 1st building in the city designed to house a crew of fire fighters, the Volunteer 38s, and their equipment.
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Plaza Firehouse, in the heart of historic Los Angeles, was built in 1884. Fire House No. 1, as it is also called, was the 1st building in the city designed to house a crew of fire fighters, the Volunteer 38s, and their equipment.
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The Rankin Building in Santa Ana was built in 1917 by Henry T. Rutherford under lease to John H. Rankin. It was the largest single dry goods establishment in the county and Orange County’s first instance of a modern department store.
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