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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Happy Memorial Day From The Sand Man
With many of us heading off to the beach this Memorial Day, I thought you would enjoy seeing what you might find if you could hop into a time machine and travel down to Long Beach some eighty years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in General Announcements, Long Beach
Tagged Long Beach, Ross Yost, Sand Sculpture, Virginia Hotel
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Beautiful Magazine Art – Arts & Decoration July 1931
Arts & Decoration was always such a beautifully mounted magazine and here they score a home run with their July 1931 cover art, “The Wave,” by artist Stina Lencke.
Jack Lives On! – An Original Jack Donovan “Stars” in L.A. Confidential
As anyone who has been following my recent posts on Jack Donovan knows, his amazing life intermingled both the worlds of architecture and the movies. Jack’s highly attuned sense of theatricality is readily apparent in his home designs, which were exuberant, … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Hancock Park, Movie Locations
Tagged 501 Wilcox Avenue, Curtis Hanson, Jack Donovan, Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential
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Stars With Big Heads
Everyone knows movie stars have to have enormous egos, otherwise they couldn’t be movie stars, right? Well, here are a few stars with really big heads – papier-mache ones that is, part of a group of 14 Big-Headed stars sent … Continue reading
Posted in General Announcements
Tagged Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, Richard Dix
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The House(s) That Jack Built – Part VI – Conclusion
And now, at last, we conclude the story of Jack Donovan and The House(s) That Jack Built. This is Part VI. If you’d like to read the first parts just click on them here: Part I, Part II, Part III, … Continue reading
The House(s) That Jack Built Part V
And now we continue with story of Jack Donovan and The House(s) That Jack Built. This is Part V. If you’d like to read the first parts just click on them here: Part I, Part II, and Part III and Part … Continue reading
The House(s) That Jack Built Part IV
And now the continuation of the amazing story of Jack Donovan and The House(s) That Jack Built. This is Part IV. If you’d like to read the first parts just click on them here: Part I, Part II, and Part … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Interesting People, Santa Monica, Windsor Square
Tagged 13047 San Vicente Boulevard, 136 Georgina Avenue, 144 Adelaide Drive, 419 South Lorraine Boulevard, Champagne Waltz (1937), Fred J. McConnell, Henry T. Gage, Jack Donovan, Jeanette G. Donovan, Mae Murray, Parker O. Wright Jr.
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