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Meticulously Restored Purchased in 1989, and meticulously restored in 1991-92, with the help and encouragement of the Community Redevelopment Agency, by lawyer- turned-developer, Ira Yellin, the Bradbury Building has once again become one of the city’s most distinguished office buildings. The Bradbury Building was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior in 1977. Please Note: not all locations on Walk have Historic Site Markers Please Note: not all locations on Walk The meticulously restored interior of the Bradbury Building. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

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Sandstone to Celluloid the Bradbury Building, home to Today, corporations, real estate investment firms and the Los Angeles police internal affairs division, department’s is no stranger to fictional law role enforcement; in the Bradbury’s movies has made it familiar to people who have never crossed its threshhold. The unexpected death of its namesake and the otherwise undistinguished designs of its creator have not diminished the Bradbury reputation, and as Building’s one of most popular the film area’s settings, it seems assured of immortality as downtown Los Angeles’ most intriguing landmark. After publishing executive Will Randall, played by Actor Jack Nicholson change. Here he is seen in his office.

PHOTOS BROTHERS WARNER AND COMPANY LADD THE OF COURTESY Harrison Ford, Wyman, who, like Frank Lloyd Wright, had no academic credentials as an architect, employed the unusually narrow lot to his advantage. five Throughout stories the Bradbury’s are lavish displays of Italian marble and Mexican floor tiles, two delicate bird-cage water-powered elevators, 288 radiators, 50 fireplaces, 215 wash basins, all as decorative as they were functional — and the largest plate-glass windows in Los Angeles. delicate foliate The grillwork interior’s was made in France and was first Fair World displayed at Chicago’s before being installed. Bradbury never saw his building completed. More than a year before it opened in January 1894, he died. It had cost him $500,000, more than twice what he had budgeted for. Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty. Right: Actor Los Angeles cop Rick Deckard, played a by Blade Runner, specializes in terminating replicants, 21st-century androids, in the 1982 movie "Blade Runner."

It will Make Famous You George Herbert Wyman at first judged it unethical to accept because he worked for Hunt. But while playing with a Ouija board, he said he received a message from his dead brother, the Bradbury Mark: assignment. ‘’Take It will make you famous.’’ So he undertook the project, with that assist from the occult and inspiration from a book, ‘’Looking Backward,’’ by Edward The Bellamy. book, which eventually became a cult classic, imagined a 21st-century world of cooperative housing and workspaces organized around crystal courts. Wyman turned that inspiration into the focal point interior, of the building’s a vertical courtyard bathed in the Southern California sunlight filtering through a massive glass roof.

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son Bradbury, of a wealthy Maine came family, west in the 1850s, striking it rich in the Mexican gold mines of Mazatlan. At 45, he followed the pattern of other ambitious Yankee newcomers, and married Simona Martinez, a Mazatlan heiress 20 years his junior. After shuttling up and down California, the couple settled in Los Angeles, hoping the climate would improve chronic asthma. Their Bradbury’s ‘’country place’’ was a 2,750-acre ranch, the core of a town that would eventually be named and Bradbury, their city home was a 50-room showplace on Bunker Hill. It was from his Bunker Hill home that, in 1891, Bradbury fancied a unique office building he could walk to, and which would bear his name. The man he commissioned for Hunt, a the project was Sumner P. leading Southland architect who had already designed homes and mansions. design left But Bradbury Hunt’s uninspired, and he offered the job to a young, $5-a-week draftsman in the office. architect’s

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O H P Los Angeles Fire Department, 1913, working on a fire at the corner of Third Street and Broadway. Southern The Transit & Walking Districts The of Transit Historic Los Angeles L. Bradbury Special Thanks to: City Council of the City of Los Angeles John Ferraro, President Mayor Richard J. Riordan Council Member Richard Alatorre Council Member Rita Walters Supported by: Community Redevelopment Agency–City of Los Angeles Los Angeles Department of Transportation Los Angeles Department of General Services Los Angeles Authority County Metropolitan Transportation Los Angeles Times Project Team Angels Project LA Walk Executive Development: Director, Deanna Spector, Project Co-ordinator: Douglas Huls, Director of Operations, Angels LA Walk Stanchion Designer: Rogerio Carvalheiro Writer: Cecilia Rasmussen, Los Columnist Angeles Times Writer: Patt Morrison, Los Columnist Angeles Times Graphics: DesignTeal Acknowledgements: Nick Patsaouras Dean Robert of Timme, the School of Architecture, University of Southern California William Holland, City Architect, City of Los Angeles Gregory Scott, Director of Street Services Cultural Affairs, Nodal, City Director, Aldolfo of V. Los Angeles L. Bradbury Mining Tycoon Makes his Mark BUILDING BUILDING Angels Angels

Walk LA His name endures in the eponymous town of wealth and horseflesh set against the San Gabriel Mountains, but mining tycoon Louis Bradbury made his loveliest mark on magnificent the with California architectural gem that also bears his name —the Bradbury Building, known affectionately as ‘’The Bradbury.’’ One critic has called the space ‘’a fairytale of mathematics,’’ from its red sandstone exterior to its brick and iron-lace inner spaces. It is one of Los Angeles’ truly breathtaking buildings, its interior as visually exciting for visitors and moviemakers now as it was a century ago — which is exactly what Bradbury envisioned, a building that would still be modern a hundred years after its cornerstone was laid. BRADBURY BRADBURY BRADBURY COPYRIGHT © 1999 BY ANGELS L. WALK A., INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PERMISSION TO REPRINT OR MUST REPRODUCE BE THIS GRANT MATERIAL BUNKERBUNKER HILLHILL // HISTORICHISTORIC CORECORE

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who had them restored with the Community Redevelopment assistance Agency’s and private funds as a staging ground for revival of a downtown residential and shopping district.

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made a fortune manufacturing fine dinner wear that carried his name, had commissioned architect John Parkinson to build firstthe city’s reinforced steel and ‘’truly fireproof’’ six-story building. It housed the Coulter Dry Goods Co., and eventually the ground floor was extended to Hill Street and two stories were added overhead, where the Central Library took up residence for two years. By 1908,store Coulter’s had moved, and the City of Paris department store set up shop. But an entrepreneur from Seattle had other ideas for the space. Chester A. Goss partnered withheir Laughlin’s to open a huge ground-floor food hall. So in 1917, the City of Paris moved out and Grand Central Market was open for business, beginning a run of popularity that only the movies could rival.

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The Saga of Grand Central Market But even as the theatre struggled, its next-door the neighbor, Grand Central Market, thrived. In 1898, Homer Laughlina Civil Sr., War veteran who Mulholland worked with his somtimes- rivals in water the wars region’s to bring water to the city. hugely popular but movie palaces had become more common and less ornate. For more than four decades beginning in 1939, the theatre began showing Spanish-language movies and inviting stage acts. Stars from Latin America – Cantinflas Lola Beltran among them – performed over the years. The sidewalk in front bears plaques honoring Latino performers, among them Mexican screen idol Jorge Negrete. In 1954, as he prepared for a week long engage- ment at the theatre, he died. Hundreds of disbelieving fans showed up at the hoping to Million hear Dollar, that it wasn’t true.

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11 flights of ornate, wrought-iron back-stairs to create dizzying scenes. Listed as a historical cultural landmark in 1969, the building has charms for moviemakers and guests alike, including the

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The Biltmore’s Best The Biltmore’s Kept Guests pillows have The been Biltmore’s plumped for assorted royalty and seven presidents, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman Kennedy. John F. In 1964, the Beatles were dropped by helicopter to the hotel rooftop, and hid out for a few days during their first U.S. tour. Lingerie saleswoman Thelma Becker best-known was the hotel’s in-house and celebrity, its longest resident. She called the hotel home for 57 years, until 1997, when a broken hip forced her to check out and move into a convalescent home. If she was ‘’in the mood and had time,’’ she said, she conducted impromptu tours for VIP guests. When she retired in 1975, the hotel management cut her room rate to $33 a night and kept it

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she was ever seen alive; her mutilated body was found a week later, about five miles away.

WANAMAKER MARC OF COURTESY PHOTO in the ballroom in 1927; Cedric Gibbons sketched the design for the Oscar on a hotel napkin. Beginning in 1931, and the many hotel years thereafter, hosted the Oscar ceremonies themselves, in the Biltmore Bowl, which also became a showcase for the Big Bands of the 1930s and ‘40s. `In 1947, a young woman named Elizabeth Ann Short, one of hundreds of hopeful starlets, who only gained fame as a murder victim known by the nickname ‘’Black Dahlia,’’ spent a few hours in the Biltmore making lobby, phone calls. It was the last place Ninth Annual Awards of Academy Merit of Presentation Dinner, Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Biltmore Hotel, March 4, 1937 The Biltmore’s Best The Biltmore’s Kept Secret The Biltmore, like the rest of the city’s hostelries, observed the official rules of Prohibition, but in the luxurious Presidential suite — accessible by private elevator and occupied by seven presidents and scores of luminaries — a button hidden in the paneling opened a secret liquor compartment that was kept stocked during the ‘’dry’’ era and even today. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that hosts the Academy Awards, was born at a gathering of film luminaries Academy Awards, th 11 Best Actress for “Jezebel” February 23, 1939, held at the Biltmore Bowl. Spencer Tracy Biltmore Bowl. Spencer Tracy receives Best Actor for “Boys Town’’ and Bette Davis receives Town’’ It eventually hosted 40 touring plays and musicals before the faded curtains dropped for the last time in 1964. MILLENNIUM BILTMORE HOTEL BILTMORE MILLENNIUM ED IN WRITING BY ANGELS L. WALK A., INC.

The occasion was marked by 3,000 guests who dined on seven courses and danced to the music of seven orchestras and the birdsong of caged canaries. Among the guests were Cecil B. Theda DeMille, Myrna Loy, Bara and Ramon Novarro. Built by a consortium of local businessmen at a cost of $10 million, west hotel biggest the was Biltmore the of Chicago, and its luxury made it the grandest. Like some of the stars who would work and play there, the hotel was an overnight sensation. And six months after the debut,hotel’s the Biltmore Theatre opened, selling tickets printed on brass for opening night only. Designed by Schultze and Weaver, the Newfirm York that also designed the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, the Biltmore was a success from the start, as was the 1,700-seat theatre.

COURTESY PHOTO HOTEL BILTMORE MILLENNIUM THE OF HOTEL HOTEL statement to Los Angeles had The Transit & Walking Districts The of Transit Historic Los Angeles world that, as a great great a as that, world Special Thanks to: City Council of the City of Los Angeles John Ferraro, President Mayor Richard J. Riordan Council Member Richard Alatorre Council Member Rita Walters Supported by: Community Redevelopment Agency–City of Los Angeles Los Angeles Department of Transportation Los Angeles Department of General Services Los Angeles Authority County Metropolitan Transportation Los Angeles Times Project Team Angels Project LA Walk Executive Development: Director, Deanna Spector, Project Co-ordinator: Douglas Huls, Director of Operations, Angels LA Walk Stanchion Designer: Rogerio Carvalheiro Writer: Cecilia Rasmussen, Los Columnist Angeles Times Writer: Patt Morrison, Los Columnist Angeles Times Graphics: DesignTeal Acknowledgements: Nick Patsaouras Dean Robert of Timme, the School of Architecture, University of Southern California William Holland, City Architect, City of Los Angeles Gregory Scott, Director of Street Services Cultural Affairs, Nodal, City Director, Aldolfo of V. Los Angeles BILTMORE BILTMORE BILTMORE BILTMORE Democratic Party Kennedy hopefuls and Senator his John running F. mate, Angels Angels

Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, walk through Millennium Biltmore Hotel, July 16, 1960.

Walk LA Democratic Convention Los Angeles Headquarters, 1960 Host of the Coast Its lore is as rich as its tapestries, as its gilded cupids and carved marble. From the moment it opened on October 2, 1923, the 11-story Biltmore Hotel became Los Angeles’ ‘’Host of the Coast,’’ a chandeliered the rest of the American metropolis, undoubtedly arrived. MILLENNIUM MILLENNIUM MILLENNIUM MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT © 1999 BY ANGELS L. WALK A., INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PERMISSION TO REPRINT OR MUST REPRODUCE BE THIS GRANT MATERIAL BUNKERBUNKER HILLHILL // HISTORICHISTORIC CORECORE

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