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2011

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Chairperson

Regina O’Brien, 2009-2015

Milestones in the Community

Meeting Locations

Events

Eldon Davis Memorial

On April 22, 2011 Eldon Davis Passes away. The Modern Committee gathersa few days later at Pann’s in Culver City in memorium.

Nichols Birthday Party at WigWam Hotel

Showcase of ModCom talent at Nichols’ annual birthday party.

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Advocacy:

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building

Office designed by Paul R. Williams in 1949 is successfully nominated as a HCM I Los Angeles and lobby murals are preserved in situ.

DWP Headquarter

Successful nomination of the Department of Water and Power headquarters designed by Albert C. Martin and Associates in 1965 and seen in so many movies and image of quintessential Los Angeles.

Glendale County Building

Modcom keeps a watchful eye out for this 1959 government building along with the City of Glendale and the Glendale Historical Society when the AOC proposed to demolish the existing annex “and much of the existing building.”
https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/glendale-county-building

Annual Holiday Party:

UCLA Faculty Center

Modern Master Awards:

  • Robert Burman
  • Victor Cusack, FAIA
  • James De Long, FAIA
  • Edward Fickett, FAIA
  • Harry Gesner, AIA

Tangents

Rat Pack Moment

The Atomic Age Alliance in Las Vegas conducts a bus tour in which one of the highlights is finding the exact location of where the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford) stood for the famous picture of them in front of the Sands Hotel sign on the Strip. Many ModCom members are present.

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John Lautner 100th Birthday Tour

MAK Center partnered with The John Lautner Foundation for a house tour on the occasion of John Lautner’s 100th birthday July 23, 2011. Included the Harpel House (1956), the Jacobsen House (1947), the Schwimmer House (1982), and the Sheats/Goldstein Residence (1963/1989).

AIA “East and West of 405”

Tour on March 2011 – four houses for its first spring Modern home tour.

Dapper Day at Disneyland

Retro fashion event, “Dapper Day” at Disneyland is started by Justin Jorgensen.

Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles

Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of modern architecture and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. By John Eng and Adriene Biondo.
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Tract-Homes-Los-Angeles/dp/076433865X/ref=llvn-20

2003

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Chairperson

Alan Lieb, 2001-2004

Milestones in the Community

Hollywood Star Lanes Bowling Alley – filming site of the Big Lebowsky is torn down.

 

 

Meeting Locations

Event: “Built by Beckett Centennial Celebration”

Tour of buildings by Welton Beckett and Associates. Event also includes a presentation at Beckett designed Cinerama Dome. Members of the Beckett family are in attendance.

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Download Tour Map as a PDF

Advocacy

Holiday Bowl

Designed by Armet and David in 1958 – part of a long preservation battle that concluded with the salvation of the coffee shop. The bowling alley is demolished.

Ambassador Hotel Presentation

Panel Discussion on preservation options

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Tangents:

Mondo Tiki and Mondo Vegas Tour

Mondo Tiki event at the Hard Rock Hotel and Mondo Vegas bus tour on Friday Night, April 18thconducted by MM Stratton and Eric Lynxwiler ended just in time for cocktails at 9PM at Taboo Cove (Designed by SHAG and ___at the Venetian. Highlights included: The Infamous Giant Aku Aku Moai from the Stardust Hotel, 1950s and 1960s Boulder Highway Googie motels, Neon Sign Museum at Fremont Street, 1955 National Register Moulin Rouge, Narrated History of Vegas and the Strip.

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Apartment Living is Great

Leslie Marlene Siegel produces an exhibit and book celebrating Los Angeles graphic dingbats at the Outre Gallery in Melbourne, Australia

Art Cars at the Petersen Museum

Event is introduced by Michael Palumbo, former ModCom chair

MAK Architectural Lovell Houses Tours

November 1, 2003 tour featured the two houses designed for Philip Lovell: Lovell Health House (Richard Neutra, 1929) and Lovell Beach House (R.M. Schindler, 1926).

Book of Tiki signing

Book signing at La Luz de Jesus Gallery and Wacko book store solidifies the important place of Tiki in preservation of Mid Century architecture and design

Southern California in the ’50s: Sun, Fun and Fantasy

Book by Charles Phoenix is published June 1, 2003
https://www.amazon.com/Southern-California-50s-Sun-Fantasy/dp/1883318491/ref=llvn-20

2000

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Chairperson

Michael Palumbo, 1999-2001

Milestones in the Community

  • National Trust For Historic Preservation Conference – Conference held in Los Angeles. Several tracts on Modernism with participation by Modcom members. In addition a special 1 day bus tour version of the How Modern Was My Valley conducted by Mary-Margaret Stratton.
  • Dwell Magazine is launched.

Meeting Locations

  • El Paradiso ModCom Meeting
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Events

How Modern Was My Valley Two Day Tour

Tour – more info on website:
www.HowModernWasMyValley.com

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Mid Century Riverside Tour

Ad hoc, yet comprehensive self-driving tour of the greater downtown Riverside area on 9-30-2000. Produced by Daniel Paul. Coincides with the “Everyday Modernism Conference at UCR

Your Government in Glendale

Ad hoc walking tour produced by Laura Friedman. Laura later went on to become a Glendale city council member and mayor.

Advocacy

Holiday Bowl

Bowling alley designed by Armet and David 1958 becomes a long preservation battle – concludes in 2003.

Lincoln Place

Garden city apartment complex by Ralph A. Vaughn & Heth Warton, 1949-1951 become a ten year long effort to save. Efforts conclude in 2010.

August 14, 2014 marked the reopening of Lincoln Place, a historic 38-acre, 1951 garden apartment complex off Lincoln Boulevard in Venice.  thanks to Amanda Seward for her leadership as the ModCom residential committee chair and for her work on the California Register nomination.

www.laconservancy.org/gardenapartments

https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/lincoln-place

Tangents:

The Architecture of John Lautner

by Alan Hess  (Author), Alan Weintraub  (Photographer) – January 1, 2000
https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-John-Lautner-Alan-Hess/dp/0847822222/ref=llvn-20

Rancho Deluxe: Rustic Dreams and Real Western Living

by Alan Hess  (Author), Alan Weintraub  (Author)  – March 1, 2000
https://www.amazon.com/Rancho-Deluxe-Rustic-Dreams-Western/dp/0811824209/ref=llvn-20

MAK Architecture Tour

Sites included: Buck House (R.M. Schindler, 1934), DeKeyser House (R.M. Schindler, 1935), Dunsmuir Flats (Gregory Ain, 1937), Bonnet House (Richard Neutra, 1942), Fitzpatrick House (R.M. Schindler, 1936), Mackey Apartments (R.M. Schindler, 1939), Hailey House (Richard Neutra, 1958), Kallis House (R.M. Schindler, 1946), Kings Road House-Studio (R.M. Schindler, 1922), Shulman House and Studio (Raphael Soriano, 1950), Bergren Residence (John Lautner, 1951). And cocktails at Case Study House #22, designed by architect Pierre Koenig.

1993

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Chairperson

Peter Moruzzi, 1992-1997

Milestones in the Community

  • Bob’s Big Boy Preservation Win
  • Nickodell – Famous Paramount Pictures adjacent eaterie on Melrose is closed

Meeting Locations

Events

Postwar Commercial Architecture in Los Angeles

Lecture and Exhibition focusing on Armet and Davis, the firm responsible for bringing the Googie Coffee Shop style to a broader American audience.

Advocacy:

Bob’s Big Boy

Designated a California State Historical Point of Interest. Designed by Wayne McAllister in 1949 in Toluca Lake. The process is difficult due to owner opposition. After designation it becomes the top grossing Bob’s Big Boy in the country.

Tangents

House Industries

A new company in Delaware begins that will influence the graphic world in the coming years. This type Foundry and font catalog allows people across the world to utilize fonts initiated by Southern California architects and artists since 1993.

Eichler Network

The Eichler Network begins to support the lifestyle of the thousands of homeowners in Northern and Southern California who own an ‘Eichler’ home. mid-century homeowners in Sacramento and southern California who live in Streng Bros., Palmer & Krisel, Cliff May, and other Eichler-like mid-century modern classics. CA-Modern, a quarterly full-color hard-copy magazine which contains a mix of features on California’s rich legacy of mid-century modern homes and the people that live in them, home maintenance solutions, and other features that focus on the modern home and its lifestyle. CA-Modern Magazine since 2006

Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture

An influential book on Las Vegas architecture arrives by Alan Hess with a forward by Robert Venturi in July 1, 1993
https://www.amazon.com/Viva-Las-Vegas-After-Hours-Architecture/dp/081180111X/ref=llvn-20

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