A Photography Project
The Fluor company relocated several times before building new headquarters in Irvine composed of 2 main buildings: high-rise Corporate Offices and lower-rise offices for Fluor Engineers and Constructors, Southern California Division.
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The Griffith Park Zoo that opened in 1912 was constructed with a next-to-nothing budget from the L.A. City Council and was about as basic as it gets. It was populated with animals from abandoned menageries and the shuttered Eastlake Zoo.
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The Goleta Depot, built in 1901, was one of about a dozen depots built by Southern Pacific Railroad in Santa Barbara County at the time of the completion of SP’s Coast Line connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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The remnants of a New Deal-era sewage treatment plant in Laguna Beach, a ground level digester tower and a small “lighthouse” up on the hillside that covered the digester air vent, will be renovated as part of a city improvement project.
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A 2018 restoration project led by Edward Ahdoot of Rockwell Properties uncovered a mosaic mural created by Susan Hertel of Millard Sheets Studio for the Homes Savings Center (now International City Bank) on Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach.
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The Long Beach Venus is modeled on a 1767 bronze sculpture by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain entitlad “Venus Au Bain.” It held a prominent position in an alcove above the marquee of Fox West Coast Theater on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach.
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Heisler Park in Laguna Beach was named after Howard G. Heisler, a member of the Laguna Company that bought the property from the Irvine Company in 1905. The park stretches along the bluffs on Cliff Drive from Aster Street to Diver’s Cove.
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