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September 2018 • Vol 16, No 3 An Autumn Stroll Down Adelaide Drive: A Neighborhood Above It All High on a bluff above Santa Monica Canyon where imposing homes look out over spectacular ocean and hillside vistas, you’ll find Ade - laide Drive, site of our fall walking tour on Sunday, October 21, from 1 to 5 pm. Tour docents will describe the fascinating history and ar - chitectural styles of various residences, both vintage and contemporary. View the beautiful pines and ornate lampposts of this neighborhood, and perhaps attempt one or both sets of the notorious stairs that draw fitness buffs to Adelaide. In the early 20th century, wealthy pioneer families built their coastal homes on Adelaide Drive, and today, six of these residences are still standing as designated landmarks. Current Adelaide residents include architect Frank Gehry, artist Don Bachardy, author Mona Simpson and cartoonist/animator Matt Groening. e second home of Roy Jones, son of Santa Monica co-founder Senator John Percival Jones, will be open to visitors. Built in 1907, this Colonial Revival home was designed by Jones’ brother-in-law, ar - chitect Robert Farquhar, who is recognized for UCLA’s Clark Library, the California Club in and Santa Monica land - marks, including the Henry Weyse/Charles Morris House. Also featured on the tour is the stunning Gillis House, a 1905 Craftsman masterpiece with an English Arts and Crafts influence. Robert Gillis, who Robert Gillis and his wife on horseback in front of their home at 406 Ade - owned the Santa Monica Land and Water Company and bought thou - laide Drive. Photo: Santa Monica Public Library sands of acres in Pacific Palisades in the early 20th century, named Adelaide Berta. Construction of Gehry’s new house began in 2014. It features Drive after his oldest daughter. Gillis selected architects and glass walls and a distinctive a roof—a cluster of smaller, overlapping Elmer Grey to design this home. Hunt and Grey were associates of a promi - roofs each oriented differently. nent Pasadena firm that designed the in San Marino. An invitation with details will follow. Tickets may be purchased by In contrast to these historic homes is the very contemporary home mail or online at www.smconservancy.org and will also be available on recently built by and for renowned architect Frank Gehry and his wife the day of the tour. Conservancy Nominates Carousel Park for Landmark Status arousel Park, the welcoming gateway to Cthe Looff Hippodrome from the board - walk below, has been in threat of demolition with the proposed pier bridge improvements. e award-winning Park contains a children’s playground, ample bleacher seating with lookout pavilions and ADA access from Ocean Front Walk to the Pier deck. e Con - servancy joined the Cultural Landscape Foun - dation and Chattel, Inc., preservation consultants, in submitting a landmark desig - nation application for the Park. A designation hearing by the Landmarks Supporters of Carousel Park gathered on June 15 to take a “This Place Matters” photo. Photo: Chattel, Inc. Commission will be held on September 13 at 6 pm at the Santa Monica Institute (SMI) 11th Street Historic District Meetings, page 5 ,,, Training Room at 330 Olympic Drive. www.smconservancy.org 1 oUR MISSIoN MESSAGE FRoM tHE PRESIDENt e Santa Monica Conservancy is the leading emolition permits are no longer being reviewed by the city’s voice for preserving our historic places. D We promote understanding of the cultural, Landmarks Commission, a task it has been charged with for social, economic and environmental benefits decades. Who will be responsible? You and I and organizations like of historic preservation through education, the Conservancy who are willing to step up and protect our poten - assistance and advocacy. tial historic resources. For years, Santa Monica empowered the Commission to proac - JoIN US tively nominate properties for Landmark designation. After an inde - e Santa Monica Conservancy exists because pendent consultant’s report and a public hearing, the Commission of the involvement and generosity of people determined if a property was landmark-worthy. ese proactive designations were very ef - like you. Become a member today and strengthen our voice for preserving Santa fective in protecting important historic resources where an owner would not have initiated Monica’s architectural and cultural heritage. the designation but ultimately accepted it, and, in some cases, went on to take advantage of Membership information is available on p. 7. a Mills Act property tax abatement. is is how many historic buildings in Downtown Santa Monica and elsewhere in the City were designated, including several featured on the Conservancy’s Downtown Walking Tour. tHE BoARD oF DIRECtoRS What changed? In 2015, City staff, citing a State Court of Appeals decision, Woody’s Carol Lemlein, President Group, Inc. vs. City of Newport Beach , prohibited the Landmarks Commission from making Sherrill Kushner, Vice-President proactive nominations. Fortunately, the Conservancy and the Landmarks Commission were John Zinner, Vice-President successful in getting Council to waive the nomination fee for nonprofits like the Conser - Tom Cleys, Treasurer vancy and the neighborhood organizations, as well as for individual Landmark Commis - Kaitlin Drisko, Secretary sioners who were willing to recuse themselves from deciding on the designation. Michael W. Folonis, FAIA In June, this prohibition was extended to end the Commission's review of demolition ap - Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA plications for every property over 40 years of age. When the list of applications not yet ad - Liz Coughlin dressed by the Commission was released in July to the Conservancy and the neighborhood Nina Fresco organizations, 27 demo applications were pending, including eight properties on the His - David Kaplan toric Resource Inventory (HRI)! e Conservancy Advocacy Committee immediately re - Ruthann Lehrer viewed all 27 and identified several to be investigated. So far, we have discovered a few Meighan Maguire where the property isn’t actually threatened– and by the time this newsletter goes to press, Libby Motika our work may have resulted in one or more Landmark designation applications. Libby Pachares Relying on non-governmental individuals or organizations to take on this review creates Emeritus Board Members: an undue burden which is complicated by several procedural problems. e first is time. Ken Breisch, Ph.D. City staff does not release demo application packages in a timely fashion, limiting the time Doris Sosin to determine those worthy of designation before the demo permit becomes effective. Most serious, however, is the fact that our current HRI reflects 10-years-old field studies and only covers properties built prior to 1968. e update authorized in 2015, covering properties CoNtACt US through 1978, has been undergoing staff review for months. Since it has not been released to Website: www.smconservancy.org the public, we lack essential up-to-date information on some, perhaps even a majority, of the E-mail: [email protected] properties which might be landmark-worthy. Release of the new HRI is desperately needed! Voicemail: (310) 496-3146 How can you help? If you see a demo sign go up on a property that you believe may have Mail: P.O.Box 653 historic and/or cultural value, please email [email protected]. Include anything you Santa Monica, CA 90406 know about the owner and plans for the property. It may be several weeks before the applica - Visit the Preservation tion package is publicly available. It really helps to know as soon as possible so we can begin our Resource Center: research. More than ever, it’s now up to us and others to safeguard our historic resources! 2520 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90405 Open Wednesday & Friday - Sunday 12 - 3 pm and by appointment tHE NEWSLEttER StAFF Liz Coughlin Carol Lemlein Commemoration of Nikkei Hall completion Tom Hofer Libby Motika in 1957. The Hall was Sherrill Kushner Libby Pachares designated as a land - mark in May 2018 Ruthann Lehrer Robin Tung after a review of a demolition permit. is newsletter is supported in part by a grant from the City of Santa Monica and Photo: Discover Nikkei the Santa Monica Arts Commission.

2 September 2018 New Docents Guide Shotgun House tours ozens of docents staff our tours, turned out to be a former classmate of his member Nina Fresco to be - Dwhich include the Downtown Walking from UC Berkeley. come a docent, she signed Tour, the Marion Davies Guest House at the Gabriela Corona, a native on. “I love Ocean Park,” Annenberg Community Beach House and the Santa Monican and our she says. “Docenting gives Shotgun House, welcoming local residents and youngest docent, works as a me the opportunity to get visitors from around the world. Docents are in - community college coun - more immersed in local his - tegral to our mission of showing Santa Mon - selor at Santa Monica Col - tory while doing something ica’s heritage and the benefits of preservation. lege, and is earning a doctoral good for the community.” Beth Leder-Pack Our three newest docents at the Shotgun degree in Educational Lead - We are always looking for House recently completed training in Santa ership. She has always been Gabriela Corona new docents. To apply as a volunteer, go to Monica history, architecture and the art of fascinated by history and www.smconservancy.org and click "Get In - docenting and have been leading tours at the wanted to learn more about her hometown. volved." Shotgun House for several months. When she saw our “open” sign on the library We thank our cadre of other Shotgun Bill Androlia docents on weekends with his lawn this year, she was determined to visit. One House docents: Linda Androlia, Catherine wife Linda, and also docents of her most rewarding docent experiences has Conkle, Phillis Dudick, Eric Dugdale, Board at the Annenberg Commu - been showing her mother the Shotgun House. member Mario Fonda-Bonardi, Denise Or - nity Beach House. He has Beth Leder-Pack was an early proponent of lando, Chair of the Docent Council Libby always been interested in the Shotgun House when it was under threat Pachares, Sylvia Rose, Shannon Ryan, Lor - “heritage kind of architec - of demolition. As a member of the Church in raine Sanchez, Jodi Summers, Hilda Weiss, ture and the people behind Ocean Park, a supporting organization, she Carolyn Yost and Patty Godon-Tann, who it.” He was surprised by a wrote the appeals to save the house. Encour - has undertaken the enormous task of sched - recent Bay area visitor who Bill Androlia aged by her friend and Conservancy Board uling the docents’ shifts since 2011. Docents take in a Day of ocean Park History A Summer Hit: By Libby Pachares Speaker Series he Conservancy’s first summer speaker n May 30, Docent Council members Tseries was a resounding success. All three OLinda Androlia and Patty Godon-Tann Sunday evening lectures sold out with over arranged a special Shotgun House tour for the 180 guests attending the series at the historic Beach House docents. Androlia and Godon- landmark Rapp Saloon. Tann both serve as Beach House and Shotgun e idea for the successful series was the brain - House docents. Conservancy Board Member child of Program Committee chair Libby and Shotgun House docent Mario Fonda- Motika and Jan Jackson, and was successfully Bonardi shared with tour-goers his extensive executed by coordinator Steve Loeper and knowledge of these homes and the role they volunteers Kaitlin Drisko, Phillis Dudick, played in Santa Monica’s history. Docents then opportunity to view the special exhibit “Rock Susan Eve, Dwight Flowers, Sherrill Kushner, headed to the California Heritage Museum, & Roll Legends, e Lost Negatives of Ruthann Lehrer, Diane Locklear, Fran Lyness the 1894 former home of Roy Jones, son of Michael Friedman.” e photos from this ex - and Meighan Maguire. We thank our video - Santa Monica co-founder John Jones. e hibit are headed to the Rock & Roll Hall of graphers Eli Fresco and Reed Wilson, and the home was originally located on Ocean Avenue Fame in Cleveland, OH where they will be - Rapp Saloon for hosting our lecture series. but was moved in 1977 to its present location come a part of the permanent archives. e Special thanks to our guest speakers Marc on the corner of Main Street and Ocean Park day concluded with a lovely lunch at La Vec - Wanamaker, Mike Machat and Michael Blum Boulevard. At the Museum, docents had the chia Ristorante on Main Street. with Kathy Kohner Zuckerman. Downtown Walking tour Dazzles

On June 16, docent extraordinaire Rita Schneir captivated guests with the history and architecture of Conservancy Program Committee members sites like the Rapp Saloon, Hotel Shangri-La and Georgian Hotel on the Conservancy's Downtown Steve Loeper and Libby Motika with guest Walking Tour. Photos: Stephanie Plomarity Photography, courtesy of Santa Monica Travel & Tourism speaker Michael Machat. www.smconservancy.org 3 Former Papermate Factory Wins Architecture Award f you’ve ever driven down Olympic Boule - Ivard, then you’ve seen the rainbow-striped façade of the Pen Factory, the former 1950s Papermate factory at the corner of 26th Street. is colorful multi-tenant office space Photo: Rich Schmitt Photography is a prime example of a successful adaptive reuse. Awesomeness, a Santa Monica enter - Rehabilitated Craftsman 1415 5th Street in Santa Monica. Photo: Michael W. Folonis Architects tainment brand, received an architecture Showcased at Salon award from the Los Angeles Business Council By Libby Motika Michael W. Folonis for its new offices inside the east wing, de - Architects Wins 3 signed by architect Skidmore, Owings & his year, nearly 50 Salon participants saw Merrill LLP. From nearly 300 entries, this of - Tfirst-hand the results of Anitra and Alan AIA Design Awards fice was one of 54 projects that were honored Eskovitzes’ exquisite restoration and rehabili - for supporting sustainability and enhancing tation of a formerly a down-at-the heels land - ongratulations to Board member economic competitiveness, quality of life, and mark home. e aeroplane bungalow had to CMichael Folonis, FAIA, and his firm on community development in the Los Angeles be stripped to the studs and rebuilt to accom - receiving three Design Awards from the San region. modate structural reinforcement and updated Fernando Valley Chapter of the American In - systems. Some of the work done on the house stitute of Architects. was in fulfillment of their Mills Act contract e projects include a delicatessen and cafe historic preservation commitment. in Ensenada, Mexico; renovation of the West Guests toured the unique home and en - Hills Medical Office Building; and a 64-unit joyed refreshments, bluegrass music by e mixed-use apartment building located at 1415 Rattlesnakes and the garden with an espaliered 5th Street in downtown Santa Monica. e apple tree fronting the swimming pool. design of the building in Santa Monica estab - We thank our hosts, Anitra and Alan Es - lishes dynamic pedestrian interaction and in - kovitz, and all those who attended and sup - corporates a movable panel system that allows ported the Conservancy; Mike Deasy and tenants to regulate the amount of light filter - Bjorn Farrugia, realtors who sponsored the ing into their spaces. Construction for the event; Rich Schmitt Photography; and Conser - mixed-use building will begin this September. Photo: Benny Chan/Fotoworks vancy Salon volunteers: Phyllis Conkle (caterer extraordinaire), Susan Eve, Patty Godon-Tann, the Penguin Is Reborn as Mel’s Drive-In! Mary Ann Hays, Margarita Jerabek, Ursula Kress, Ruthann Lehrer, Steve Loeper, Fran Ly - Anticipation reigned two years ago when a ness, Sara Meric, Diane Miller, Libby Motika, sign was posted for a Conditional Use Per - Maureen Murphy, Anita Roglich, Joyce Rosen - mit (CUP) for a new restaurant on the former blum, Ruth Shari and Sarah Weber. Penguin Café site at 1670 Lincoln Boulevard. For more than two decades, the classic 1959 Googie-style restaurant designed by Armet and “Passport to Success” Davis at the official terminus of Route 66 had been the site of a chain dental office. ese ar - Visits Marquez Cemetery chitects are renowned for their perfection of the Photo: Mel’s Drive-In Googie style, representing the very best of Mid - century Modern roadside design. and classic capri shell light fixtures. e Conservancy supported the grant of the Conversion of the original freestanding pole CUP and asked the Planning Commission to sign required particular care, since such signs protect the building's historic façade and the are no longer allowed under Santa Monica’s Penguin sign. We also met with restaurant 1985 Sign Ordinance. At that time, all free - owner, Steven Weiss, offering assistance and standing, protruding and rooftop signs were support for preservation-related issues. removed, except approximately 100 that were On July 14, students from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation Center visited the Pasqual Marquez Former Los Angeles Conservancy ModCom protected as meritorious because they were Cemetery in Santa Monica Canyon as part of the chairs Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo also “Historically Significant,” typically built before Conservancy’s educational series, “Passport to worked closely with Weiss to recreate the Goo - 1970, or reflected “Contemporary Culture,” a Success.” Ernesto Marquez, Sharon Killbride and Tish Nettleship, director of La Señora Research gie-era interior, complete with sparkling ter - category which allowed for recognition of Institute, taught about the legacy of the pioneer - razzo floors, jukeboxes in many of the booths some newer signs built prior to 1985. ing Marquez family. Photo: Nina Kidd

4 September 2018 Ferris Wheel Celebrates 125th Anniversary oth Santa Monica Pier and Navy Pier in BChicago celebrated the 125th anniversary of the invention of the Ferris wheel this past June. Designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. for the World’s Columbian Exposition in , the Ferris wheel rolled onto the scene with a grand opening on June 21, 1893. While Chicago is home to the original Ferris wheel, Santa Monica is home to the world’s only solar-powered Ferris wheel. Photo: Kristina Sado/SadoFoto Ferris’s engineering feat was America’s an - swer to the recently completed Eiffel Tower The original Ferris Wheel at the 1893 World's New Narrative Signs at Columbian Exposition in Chicago. in Paris. e original Ferris wheel was 264 the Shotgun House feet tall and illuminated by 2,500 Edison in - system features 16.7 million color value com - candescent lamps. binations while the programming and display ringing history to life, Board member Our nine-story tall Pacific Wheel Ferris software presents imaging up to 24 frames per BNina Fresco has created new signs at wheel first debuted in May 1996 with the second to display dynamic, custom, com - the Shotgun House that showcase the his - opening of Pacific Park on the Santa Monica puter-generated lighting entertainment. e tory of downtown Santa Monica, Clover Pier. It was adapted as the world’s first solar- eco-friendly, enhanced LED lighting provides Field and Santa Monica Airport, as well as powered Ferris wheel in November 1998. e 81% greater energy savings than most Ferris the personal story of Karen Noonan who Pacific Wheel’s 174,000 LED lights are wheels using traditional incandescent bulbs. grew up in the Shotgun House with her mounted on the wheel’s structure which in - anks to the Santa Monica Daily Press for family in the 1960s. Drop by and read all cludes 40 spokes and two hubs. e lighting this information. about it! Thanks to Fresco for her research and to Allan Jeffries Framing in Santa Extended Hours at the Shotgun House Monica for its in-kind donation and fram - ing expertise. uring September, the Preservation Re - relocations and rehabilitation with our do - Dsource Center will be open from 12-3 cents. Our Center is a resource for Ocean pm on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Park history as well as the methods and ben - Sunday. ese extra hours allow us to wel - efits of preservation. And it’s also a great place come more residents and summer visitors to to bring kids—we have coloring books, puz - tour the last intact Shotgun House in Santa zles, a Shotgun House model house and fun Monica where they can learn about its two activities for all ages.

CoMMUNItY MEEtINGS: Proposed 11th Street Historic District id City Neighbors (MCN), a neighbor - Mhood association, has filed an applica - tion to nominate a handful of California bungalows on 11th Street to become a new historic district. e bungalows, built in the first two decades of the 1900s, are in the block south of Wilshire Boulevard. On September 18 at 7 pm, MCN will share its research at a public meeting at Col - Photo: Alison Rose Jefferson orado Center's Community Room (2500 Broadway) with a presentation that describes 1223 11th Street Photo: Santa Monica Mirror 5th Annual the homes, their history, and significance. e “A historic district can stabilize entire Nick Gabaldon Day City will host another meeting on September blocks to the benefit of tenants, owners, resi - 24 at 6:30 pm at the Santa Monica Main Li - dents and visitors,” says Planning Commis - Students from the Martin Luther King, Jr. brary (601 Santa Monica Boulevard) to dis - sion member Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA. Recreation Center celebrated Nick Ga - cuss the district, followed by a meeting on “ese houses are at risk for demolition, yet baldón on June 2, learning about Santa November 12 at 7 pm at the Santa Monica they represent a significant part of the city’s Monica Bay’s first documented surfer of Institute (330 Olympic Drive) when the history—a place where the workers who built African- and Mexican-American descent at Landmarks Commission will discuss the des - this city once lived.” the historic “Inkwell.” The Conservancy ignation and decide whether to recommend e community is encouraged to attend. teamed up with historian Alison Rose Jef - it for City Council’s approval. Validated parking available for all meetings. ferson for the event. www.smconservancy.org 5 Landmarks Commission Report 2 0 1 8 F A L L P R E S E R V A t I o N E V E N t S by Ruthann Lehrer and Carol Lemlein, ______Advocacy Co-Chairs toUR Forever Cemetery he Conservancy gratefully thanks the two SAtURDAY, oCtoBER 13, Tretiring Landmarks Commissioners -- 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Margaret Bach and Laura O’Neill. Bach, the Learn the life stories and scandals of Hollywood's Commission’s historian, initiated the brief pioneers and early movie stars and moguls during presentation of interesting aspects of Santa this 2-1/2-hour docent-led walking tour that in - cludes "visits" from several of the luminaries Monica history at each meeting. In addition buried there. Tours every 20 minutes. to her recent three terms, Bach served as a Art Deco Society of Los Angeles member and chair of the first Commission in (626) 441-6333 Activists surround the tree at 1122 California Ave. 1976. O’Neill, the architectural historian, Photo: Save Our Sycamore www.adsla.org brought her extensive professional expertise ______in historic preservation practice to the Com - Several owner-requested designations have toUR mission’s work. City Council recently re-ap - been recently approved: Chinatown pointed Dolores Sloan to the Commission as e Public Works Administration Moderne AVAILABLE BY APPoINtMENt well as replacements for the two vacancies: building at 1314 7th Street was designated, Take a guided walking tour of Chinatown’s Ken Breisch, Conservancy Board member based upon its architecture and history as architecture, temples, historic buildings and emeritus and Roger Genser, Conservancy sites, and hear about the history of Chinese headquarters of the General Telephone Cor - immigration to Los Angeles. Tours range from member who previously served as Landmarks poration between 1937 and 1956. Today it is 1 to 4 hours. Commission historian and as a member of re-purposed for commercial office use and Chinese Historical Society of Southern the Arts Commission. restaurants, a project that received a Preserva - California A rehearing was held at the June meeting tion Award from the Conservancy in 2016. (323) 222-0856 for Wilmont Neighborhood Association’s e newly designated Hipped-Roof Cottage www.chssc.org landmark nomination of a 100-year-old mon - at 1124 7th Street was moved from 840 Ore - ______umental sycamore tree at 1122 California Av - gon Avenue (now Santa Monica Blvd) in 1922 HoUSE toUR enue. Many residents presented impassioned when that area began to develop with automo - Lanterman House testimony regarding its significance to their tUESDAYS, tHURSDAYS & bile-serving businesses. It was built in 1907. ALtERNAtING SUNDAYS, 1:00 – 4:00 PM neighborhood. e Commission approved e single-story Craftsman bungalow at Tour this 1915 fireproof bungalow in La designation in a close 4-3 vote. However, the 1527 17th Street, built in 1924, was desig - Cañada Flintridge and see its exquisite original owners of the surrounding property have ap - nated as an intact example of the early residen - interiors and furnishings, including elaborate pealed the designation to City Council. tial development of the Pico Neighborhood. hand-painted wall and ceiling ornamentation. A certificate of appropriateness for modifi - Finally, at its August meeting, the Commis - Lanterman House cations to the Henry Weyse/Charles Morris sion recommended forwarding four applica - (818) 790-1421 House at 401 Ocean Avenue was unani - tions for Mills Act Contracts to City Council www.lcf.ca.gov/parks-rec/lanterman-house ______mously approved in July. is 1910 house, for approval: designated in 1990, is the work of famed 1659 Ocean Front Walk CELEBRAtIoN Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) local architect Robert Farquhar. e house fa - 133 Wadsworth Avenue SAtURDAY, NoVEMBER 3, cades will be restored, removing non-original 1305 2nd Street 12:00 – 4:00 PM alterations, and a second floor balcony will 1314 7th Street e City of Santa Monica celebrates the cycle of take advantage of ocean views. It will be con - e Mills Act is one of the most valuable life and the remembrance of ancestors with verted into two units, and a new four-story preservation incentives available. It can pro - altars, musicians, dancers, marigold offerings, a three-unit residential condominium will be vide a significant reduction in property taxes slide show honoring lost loved ones, food trucks and a communal memory wall. constructed at the rear facing Georgina Av - for owners of both owner-occupied and in - enue. e proposed new structure will use Woodlawn Cemetery come-producing properties who commit to (310) 448-8717 complementary materials and design motifs, undertake specific restoration/rehabilitation www.smgov.net but its contemporary style will differentiate it tasks and properly maintain their historic ______from the historic house. structures. FEStIVAL & toUR Craftsman Weekend Correction on the Vitagraph Studio FRIDAY - SUNDAY, NoVEMBER 9 - 11 e most comprehensive tribute to the Arts & n the June 2018 newsletter, we wrote that dale (now Echo Park), is considered to be the Crafts Movement in the Western U.S. features Ithe Vitagraph Studio was the first film stu - region’s oldest movie studio, followed by a a Craftsman House Tour, antique and decora - dio in Los Angeles, founded by omas Ince. flurry of other companies that migrated from tive arts sales, bus and walking tours of historic neighborhoods, exclusive receptions and more. First, Vitagraph was founded by J. Stuart the East coast soon after. Ince, on the other Blackton and Albert E. Smith and it was one hand, founded Inceville, a movie studio, in Pasadena Heritage (626) 441-6333 of Los Angeles’ first studios. Rather, the Selig what is now the Palisades Highlands. ank www.pasadenaheritage.org Polyscope operation, built in 1909 in Eden - you, Steve Loeper, for the correction.

6 September 2018 A WARM WELCoME to oUR NEW MEMBERS! Kim & Barbara Andres Catherine Horrigan YES! Tara Barauskas Richard Neyland Jeff Burt Alison & Andrew Perchuk I WILL HELP PROTECT SANTA Lynn Eaton Ann Rimer Suzanne Edwards & Marc Crocetti Bruce Scottow & John Vallance MONICA’S HISTORIC PLACES Caylin Ellowitz John Wyka Memberships also available online at Maria Hopper www.smconservancy.org. WE tHANk oUR BUSINESS MEMBERS AND SPoNSoRS 1001 3rd Street, LLC John Fidler Preservation Technology, Inc. JOIN THE CONSERVANCY Adamm's Stained Glass John Merchak Painting J $45 Individual Architectural Resources Group KAA Design Group J $60 Household Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc. $20 Student/Low Income California Properties KCK Architects J $100 Sustaining Bjorn Farrugia, Hilton and Hyland La Señora Research Institute J $250 Supporting Chattel, Inc. | Historic Preservation Consultants Ruth Shari, Coldwell Banker/ J Mike Deasy, deasy penner & partners Landmarks Commissioner * J $500 Benefactor DFH Architects, LLP SadoFoto, Kristina Sado J $1000 Patron * Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. * Schaf Photo Studios Drisko Studio Architects * Spectra Company JOIN AS A BUSINESS ESA Tabit Ventures * $250 Business/Corporate Supporting FormLA Landscaping The Albright J $500 Business/Corporate Benefactor Historic Resources Group *LEADERSHIP CIRCLE BuSINESS MEMBER OR SPONSOR J J $1000 Business/Corporate Patron * * LEADERSHIP CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP LEVELS

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IN THIS ISSuE:

Fall Architecture Tour: Adelaide Drive 1 Carousel Park Landmark Nomination 1 New Shotgun House Docents 3 Michael W. Folonis Architects Awarded 4 Former Pen Factory Awarded 4 Mel's Drive-In Opens 4 Ferris Wheel 125th Anniversary 5 New Signs and Hours at the Shotgun House 5 11th St. Historic District Meetings 5

FALL WALkING toUR

Discover both the historic and contemporary architectural gems of Adelaide Drive.

SUNDAY, oCtoBER 21 • 1-5 PM For tickets and details, go to www.smconservancy.org.

The second Roy Jones house, featured on the tour.

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