A Photography Project
LAHCM #49, 76 Mature Olive Trees, preserves the last visible traces of the estate of Nelson Gray, a prominent rancher in early Chatsworth. He planted the two rows of trees along the southern end of his property in about 1893.
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Designed by prominent local architect, Frederick Eley, and built in 1929, the Fire Station Headquarters No. 1 building in Santa Ana is a superior example of the Spanish Colonial Revival style as used in civic buildings.
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Here’s one literally from the record books. The world’s largest plow, manufactured by Charles R. “Hap” Post and Norman R. Post in 1937, is sitting in a small lot full of weeds on Brookhurst just north of McFadden in Westminster.
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The 876-seat Bruin Theater in Westwood Village, designed by the renowned S. Charles Lee in the Streamline Moderne style for Fox West Coast Theaters, opened on New Year’s Eve 1937. It closed on July 25, 2024, when its lease expired.
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Seward Johnson’s tribute to Marilyn Monroe, a 26-foot-tall, 34,000-pound sculpture titled Forever Marilyn, was created in 2011. It was moved from city to city, including Palm Springs, until finding a permanent home in Palm Springs in 2021.
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Built in 1929, Royce Hall was one of the first four buildings constructed on the new Westwood campus of the University of California at Los Angeles. It served as the main classroom building and was also used for meetings and speeches.
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In 1925, the “Beverly Site,” an undeveloped 383-acre area just west of Beverly Hills, was selected for the new University of California at Los Angeles campus. Ground was broken in September 1927; construction began May 7, 1928.
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