The Stuft Shirt restaurant franchise commissioned Thornton Ladd, who had recently partnered with John Kelsey, in 1960 to design a new Stuft Shirt restaurant located on the Lido Channel of Newport Harbor in the Mariner’s Mile area.
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The Disneyland Theme Park Historic District was proposed in a part of the Cultural Resources section of the EIR for the DisneylandForward project. It identified three contributing structures, Main Street Railroad Depot, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Hungry Bear Restaurant, as well as the Pope House, the first building at the park, as a Historically Significant Structure.
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The Glendale Civic Auditorium was part of the Verdugo Municipal Recreation Center built in Glendale as a WPA project in 1938. It was designed by local architect John A. Grundfor in a Spanish Colonial Revival style with other influences.
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The Sontag Cut‐Rate Drug Company opened its first Southern California stores in 1929. In 1936, the Los Angeles firm of Norstrom and Anderson was hired to build a new premier store on Wilshire Blvd. in the Streamline Moderne style.
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The Green Dog & Cat Hospital is one of the oldest continuously operating purpose‐built pet hospitals in Los Angeles. Jules Koppel designed Green’s building in an exuberant Art Deco style for high visibility along the busy Slauson Avenue.
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In 1928, the Board of Deacons of the First Baptist Church in Ventura commissioned Hollywood-based architect Robert Stacy-Judd to design what was the first ecclesiastic building embodying Mayan architectural forms & art motifs in the US.
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Bembridge House, considered the most ornate Victorian residence in Long Beach, was built by Stephen and Josephine Green in 1906. It was purchased by Thomas Rankin in 1919 and inherited by his children, Dorothy Bembridge & Neil Rankin.
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