A Photography Project
The two-story Petersen Building, at the corner of Hollywood Blvd and Orange Dr, was built in 1929 as the home of a local Cadillac dealership. The restrained Art Deco style showroom was designed by the prominent architectural firm of Meyer and Holler.
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The 2-story Cosmo’s Village, a mini-mall in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles, was built by the architectural firm Stanton, Reed and Hibbard in 1930 as the seventh location for the Howard Auto Company, a leading So Cal Buick dealership
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Plaza Firehouse, in the heart of historic Los Angeles, was built in 1884. Fire House No. 1, as it is also called, was the 1st building in the city designed to house a crew of fire fighters, the Volunteer 38s, and their equipment.
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The Hillview Apartments, built on Hollywood Boulevard in 1917, were one of several apartments and hotels built for the convenience of a highly transient film industry population and one of the few that would rent to aspiring actors.
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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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