A Photography Project
When the Warner Hollywood Theatre opened on April 26, 1928, it was the largest theatre of its day in Hollywood seating over 2700. The theater was part of a larger structure with retail space on the ground floor and three floors of office space.
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Built as part of the Westwood Village development, the Fox Westwood Theatre was designed by Percy Parke Lewis in a Spanish Mission style. Since it opened on August 14, 1931, the theater was exclusively a first run movie palace.
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LAHCM #49, 76 Mature Olive Trees, preserves the last visible traces of the estate of Nelson Gray, a prominent rancher in early Chatsworth. He planted the two rows of trees along the southern end of his property in about 1893.
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Stoney Point is a prominent sandstone outcropping of the Chatsworth Formation in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley. The 22-acre City of Los Angeles Stoney Point Park established in 1982 has since expanded to 76 acres.
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UCLA Nimoy Theater in Westwood originally opened as the UCLAN Theatre on Christmas Day, 1940. Called the Crest Westwood when acquired by UCLA in 2018, the renovated, restored and renamed theater opened in September 2023.
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Holmby Hall, built in 1929, was the first shop building in Westwood Village. The building is comprised of 5 two- and three-story segments anchored at the southeast corner by a 110-foot tall octagonal clock tower.
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Brothers Edwin and Harold Janss developed Westwood Village immediately south of the UCLA campus. In 1929, they commissioned the architectural firm of Allison & Allison to design the headquarters of the Janss Investment Company.
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