Water Towers
Water towers aren’t rare. Nor do they always “tower” over the area. But they are all landmarks, to a greater or lesser extent, as they all “enable someone to establish their location.”
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Local landmark
Van de Kamp’s/Denny’s
Completed in 1967, the unique Googie-style Denny’s restaurant on Huntington Drive in Arcadia was acquired from Van de Kamp’s Holland Dutch Bakery in 1989. It was 1 of 13 designed by Pasadena architects Harold Bissner and Harold Zook.
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Street and Tower Clocks
With a rich history dating back to the mid-1800s, street clocks, public clocks and sidewalk clocks may have placed for more than just telling the time of day.
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Home Savings and Loan
The former Home Savings and Loan Bank (now Chase Bank) at Bolsa and Goldenwest in Westminster was the last Home Savings building in Orange County to be designed by Millard Sheets with one of “late” murals designed by Susan Hertel.
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Nethercutt Museum
Founded in 1971 by J.B. Nethercutt in a 60K sq ft, 6-floor tower on his estate, the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar was expanded in 2000 with the 40K sq ft Nethercutt Museum, regarded as one of the greatest car museums in the world.
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Minerva Park Place
The Minerva Park Place Historic District in Long Beach, a narrow street lined with 16 Spanish Colonial Revival homes, was established in 1989 to preserve the houses built by street resident and building contractor Frank Smith in 1925.
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Plummer House
Plummer House was built in 1874 in what would become West Hollywood by Eugene Raphael Plummer on land his family had homesteaded next to Rancho La Brea. The “Oldest House in Hollywood” was saved when it was moved to Calabasas in 1983.
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