A Photography Project
The Lone Sailor Statue, overlooking Long Beach Harbor from Bluff Park, is an exact replica of the bronze sculpture created by Stanley Bleifield in 1984 and installed at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1987.
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B. D. Bixby built an Art Deco-Streamline Moderne style 2-story commercial building in Hollywood at the corner of Hollywood and Highland in 1935. Its initial occupant was Lee Drug; the building takes its name from this store.
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The oldest park in the city of Fullerton, Hillcrest Park, got a new feature in May, 2017, as part of a larger renovation project. The Pinewood Stairs connect Lions Field on the north side of the park with the highest peak of the main park.
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The North Atwater Bridge in Los Angeles provides access across the Los Angeles River between the residential area of Atwater Village and, via an underpass under the I5, the Crystal Springs Picnic Area of Griffith Park.
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The Regal Shoes Building on Hollywood Blvd was designed by the renowned Los Angeles architectural team of Walker and Eisen. The two-story building, constructed in 1939, is a quintessential example of the Streamline Moderne style.
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Dating to 1893, the Streetcar Depot near Pershing and Dewey in West LA was on the Sawtelle Veterans Home grounds. The building originally stood a few blocks away, near the end of Southern Pacific’s Soldier’s Home branch line.
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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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