A Photography Project
A lesser known, or perhaps lesser celebrated, example of a restaurant that was built during the heyday of Googie architecture in the Los Angeles area, Dinah’s Family Restaurant on Sepulveda Blvd. in Westchester opened in 1957.
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The Glendale Municipal Airport opened in 1923. The Glendale Airport Association syndicate purchased the airport, renaming it Grand Central Terminal, and hired Henry Gogerty to construct an air terminal that opened on February 22, 1929.
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Could there be any better expression of SoCal’s car-centric culture than the programmatic architecture of the Fleetwood Center on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana? It was designed in 1986 by Lee Oakes based on a 1970s Cadillac Fleetwood.
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The S.S. Encinitas and S.S. Moonlight appear to be two boats, 15′ tall by 20′ long, dry docked two blocks from the beach in Encinitas. Local architect Miles Minor Kellogg paid homage to his sea captain father by creating them in 1928.
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The San Diego Athletic Club building opened in 1928. The club folded in the mid-1960s and it was subsequently converted to offices for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, used for World Trade Center San Diego and is now Connections Housing.
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The eighth book from SoCal Landmarks is now available! It features the images from our 31 Days of Transportation series of social media posts during the month of December, 2023 – sites throughout Southern California that illustrate the area’s inextricable link to just about any form of transporation imaginable from planes, trains and automobiles to blimps, boats, bridges and more.
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In 1827, José Antonio Estudillo, son of a captain in the presidial garrison in San Diego, was granted a house lot. By 1829, he had completed the large house, La Casa de Estudillo, which still occupies the entire east side of town plaza.
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