A Photography Project
The eleventh book from SoCal Landmarks is now available! It features the images from our 31 Days of Landmarks in Film and on TV series of posts during the month of March 2024 – historic, architectural and natural landmarks that have appeared in feature films and television series for almost as long as they have been shooting them in Southern California.
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George Sturges commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build a Usonian style house on a steeply sloping site in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. John Lautner oversaw construction of the 1200 sq ft residence with 21-foot-long cantilevered deck.
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The 1939 May Company Building on Wilshire Blvd, “the grandest example of Streamline Moderne remaining in Los Angeles,” is now home of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. This first large-scale museum of its kind in the U.S. opened in 2021.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. The museum opened its Wilshire Blvd. location to the public in 1965. In 2026, LACMA opened the David Geffen Galleries for the permanent collection.
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The Walter L. Moore Building in downtown Santa Ana was completed in May 1924. Local architect H. Newton Thornton designed the 4-story, brick commercial building. The 1st floor provided retail space; professional offices occupied the floors above.
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The Samuel-Navarro Residence, integrated into a hillside in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, is a single-family residence built for Louis Samuel. The four-level, Mayan Revival style structure, designed by Lloyd Wright, was completed in 1928.
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The Whittier Village Cinemas, on Greenleaf Ave. in the historic downtown district of Whittier, opened as the Wardman Theatre in 1932. David S. Bushnell designed the Art Deco style single-screen theater for local businessman Aubrey Wardman.
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