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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Although Disney artists did live in the cottages built in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles by Ben Sherwood in 1931, they were not dubbed the Snow White Cottages until owner Sylvia Helfert worked to preserve their Disney connection in the 1970s.
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The Moorish-inspired Ivory Tower, in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles, was built in 1924. An early undertaking of the Hollywoodland Real Estate Development Company, the house was purportedly built for theater mogul Alexander Pantages.
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As the planned community of Panorama City was being developed, the Panorama Theatre Corp. hired William L. Pereira to design the Panorama Theatre which opened on December 20, 1949. The theater was twinned in the 1970s becoming Panorama Theatres.
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The 13-story, Art Deco-style American Storage Building on Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles, designed by Arthur Harvey, was built in 1928 primarily as a storage facility. Although it has housed other businesses, it has always been a storage facility.
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Named for Andrew Jackson “A.J.” Cook and growing from a burger joint for miners and local ranchers started by A.J’s son, Earl, Cook’s Corner in Trabuco Canyon is considered to be one of the most famous biker hangouts in Southern California.
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