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In 1967, when George Ehling bought the 1927 house built in the Hollywood Hills for Oliver Marsh, time had taken its toll. Rather than restore the house, in 1968 Ehling began its 49-year-long transformation into the unique Mosaic House.
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The Mid-Century Modern Casa de Cadillac, built in Sherman Oaks in 1948, opened in 1949 as a Don Lee Motors Cadillac dealership. Ownership of the dealership passed from Lee to Martin Pollard in 1950 who changed the name to Casa de Cadillac.
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The Malin Residence, popularly known as Chemosphere, rises above a slope on the San Fernando Valley side of the Hollywood Hills on a 29-foot-high, 5-foot-wide concrete column. Built in 1960, it was designed by John Lautner for Leonard Malin.
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Located where Hollywood Blvd merges into Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, the Lou Bard Playhouse or Bard’s Hollywood, designed by Lewis A. Smith in a Spanish Mission Revival style, opened in October 1923. It was renamed Vista Theatre in the late 1920s.
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Tommy’s original stand at Beverly and Rampart in Los Angeles was founded in 1946 by the son of Greek immigrants, Tom Koulax. By the mid 1950s, the little stand gained a reputation like none other for the appetites of Los Angeles burger lovers.
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Known as the Empire Market until 1941, the Empire Building in Santa Ana was built in 1933 as a speculative venture by the Santora Corp. It is considered to be one of the best examples of Art Deco commercial architecture in downtown Santa Ana.
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Gramercy Place Temple opened as the home of the Mogen David Congregation on September 20, 1933. The Art Deco style synagogue was designed by David Carthage Coleman and built by contractor Samuel J. Fishkin in the Harvard Heights area of Los Angeles.
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