A Photography Project
The Sontag Cut‐Rate Drug Company opened its first Southern California stores in 1929. In 1936, the Los Angeles firm of Norstrom and Anderson was hired to build a new premier store on Wilshire Blvd. in the Streamline Moderne style.
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The Shrine Auditorium and its adjoining Shrine Expo Center in Los Angeles, designed in a Moorish Revival style, were built in 1926 by The Al Malaikah Shriners to replace their original 1906 auditorium that burned down in 1920.
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Richard D. King designed the rectangular two-story Redwine Building in the Art Deco style for attorney Hiram G. Redwine in the heart of Hollywood in 1931. It replaced Redwine’s family residence on the site and was used as his office.
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The commercial property at 5040 W Pico Blvd., designed in the Art Deco style, was built in 1930. The building was converted from medical offices into a performance venue in 1991 and became the Comedy Union in March 2001.
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William Randolph Hearst commissioned architect Julia Morgan to design the building to house his sixth newspaper, the Los Angeles Examiner, in 1913. The newspaper folded in 1989 and the property became a popular filming location.
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Publisher and businessman William Wilkerson developed the Hollywood Reporter complex in the 1930s and 40s, starting with a two-story office building behind an existing one-story structure fronting Sunset Boulevard.
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The Eastern Columbia Building, designed by Claud Beelman, opened on Sept 12, 1930, as the new headquarters of the Eastern-Columbia Department Store with Columbia apparel on the lower floors, Eastern furniture and housewares on the upper.
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