ANGELS WALK® LA CITY CITY NATIONAL NATIONAL Angels Walk Figueroa PLAZA PLAZA ANGELS WALK FIGUEROA WALK ANGELS Select Stanchions FIGUEROA WALK ANGELS SECTION 1 – METRO FIGUEROA CITY NATIONAL PLAZA LIBRARY 1 The building, which also featured the In 1887, a few pioneers decided they Wilshire Boulevard PUBLIC Tall, Dark And city’s first underground garage, became needed a place to entertain friends with ANGELES LOS Prosperous an architectural style unto itself. It was good cigars and hard liquor, and to court / 2 RESEARCH COLLECTION City National Plaza City National Plaza’s sleek, gleam- designed by Los Angeles architect Stiles would-be investors in the booming real HISTORY PACIFIC ing, granite-sheathed, 52-story O. Clements, whose unforgettable work estate market. The founders numbered WESTERN SECURITY OF FOR 3 twin towers are monuments to included the Wiltern, El Capitan and about two dozen prominent members, 6th & Figueroa Streets CENTER COURTESY Mayan theatres. among them mil- Los Angeles’ long history and oil SEAVER PHOTO LIBRARY OF PUBLIC lionaire socialist capital, and to the banking money Corner of 1st and Broadway, 1886. COURTESY 4 ANGELES Engine Co. No. 28 developer H. Gaylord that followed the black gold. PHOTO LOS / Wilshire and banker Ad for Tally-Ho Stables and COLLECTION In the late 1920s, the For more than three decades, the Carriage Co. PACIFIC Isaias Wolf Hellman, 5 Ernst & Young Plaza/7+Fig Retail Center club bought its present SECURITY complex, which occupies a city one of the few early OF LIBRARY site on Flower Street for $1.1 million. The block, was known by its PUBLIC Jewish members. COURTESY eight-story brick club, designed by archi- PHOTO 6 ANGELES The Original Pantry Café original name, Arco Plaza, LOS / tect Robert D. Farquhar, opened in 1930. COLLECTIONS and was also home to the COLLECTION LIBRARY SPECIAL Bank of America in Los USC PACIFIC PUBLIC OF 7 CONNECTNECT TOTO ANGELSANGNGELSGELLSS WALKWAWALKLK BBUNNKERN HILL HOPEH PL Variety Arts Center BUN ANGELS WALK FIGUEROA K Angeles, and the Atlantic E R SECURITY ANGELES H I L L STEPS COURTESY FINANCIAL OF 5TH ST LOS / CORE SECTION 1 – METRO FIGUEROA FREMONT AVE Richfield Co. The towers’ PHOTO 6TH ST COURTESY 2 1 Wilshire Boulevard COLLECTION Oil wells in the city at Figueroa and College streets, 1926. CENTRAL significance on the CITY 3 8 PHOTO WEST STAPLES Center 6TH ST LEBANON ST PACIFIC 2 City National Plaza ST View of Los Angeles looking southwest toward 6th and Figueroa streets, c. 1900. PA S UL city skyline has been T PA A 1 UL V P E L SECURITY WILSHIRE BLVD WILSHIRE BLVD 3 6th & Figueroa Streets Not quite four decades later, a merger OF impressive, but Ange- 4 Bauhaus architect and artist Herbert Bayer’s 7TH ST 4 Engine Co. No. 28 COURTESY 9 and a fire spelled doom for the landmark. A Club For The Exclusive Los Angeles Convention Center lenos have never 5 GRAN FL PHOTO 5 Ernst & Young Plaza/7+Fig Retail Center O HOPE ST fountain sculpture “Double Ascension” OLIVE ST WER Richfield Oil Corporation merged with D AV ST forgotten its prede- Fittingly, across the street from a symbol E 6 California Club main lounge and exterior view. BIXEL 8TH ST The Original Pantry Café 8TH ST Atlantic Refining in 1966 to become was created for the site in 1973. ST FRANCISCO ST cessor, the striking 7 FWY Variety Arts Center 10 of oil and banking wealth is an exclusive SOUTH VILLAGE Bob Hope Patriotic Hall Atlantic Richfield, and the following year, R 8TH PL and beloved Rich- The California Club opened in May 1888 RBO 8 STAPLES Center club whose members include bankers and 6 9TH ST Years before, during routine soil testing for HA on Dec. 10, 1967, an electrical fire in the field Building, or the an annex to the building, Richfield’s petro- oil men — and yet it began life above on the second floor of a building at 1st 110 JAMES M WOOD BLVD 9 Los Angeles Convention Center 7 tower damaged parts of the building. 10 Bob Hope Patriotic Hall “Black and Gold,” leum geologist Manley Natland had seen a a livery stable several blocks away. Street and Broadway, above the Tally-Ho OLYMPIC BLVD F VD IGU C BL YMPI OL ST EROA SECTION 2 – WEST ADAMS now torn down. The California Club, Los Angeles’ Livery Stable. Founding members ponied SOUTH curious rock. It showed the remains PARK 11 In 1969, the entire square block 8 Stimson House AY 11TH ST N W up $100 to join and $5 a month thereafter. AR HE first elite private GE K of life in a wetter age — shells, IC OR 12 CH Historic West Adams GI of graceful old buildings, A S In 1929, the year T coral and snails. When the club, quickly STAPLES 13 Automobile Club of Southern California including Dawson’s CENTER of the stock market But as that neighborhood 12TH ST became a CHICK PICO / HEARN 14 Orthopaedic Hospital bulldozers began level- 12TH DR CONVENTION bookstore, Douglas Oil Y CENTER R A declined and the club’s cof- T GILBER crash, the master- R GI Y B INDSA L L 15 BER I AZA Amat Residence L PL bastion of cor- T ing the block for the new LI N M C D A SA I R C Y O L DR S Company, IBM and T B PICO BLVD U fers filled, the club moved a piece Art Deco P RRY ST 16 Mount St. Mary’s College, Doheny Campus S E porate and CO BLVD L Arco Plaza, he saw PI LN 9 N CAMERO E an apartment house, G N A Richfield Building few blocks away. The well- 17 John Tracy Clinic S O L civic power. / an entire bed of the CONVENTION N along with the O CENTER F I IGU T 18 arose on this site. C known and well-heeled St. James Park E EROA L G L R AN O five-to-seven-million- F I G C HOP D AV UE ST FLOWER R O A P Richfield building, R D E E S C R M 19 O E BR E N Sunshine Mission V O E K streamed to join. In two LE N T N E Its black terra cotta B I T L I A ST N O NO N M N C S E 15TH ST T A N T X year-old fossil stone. E R E D were demolished R VD 20 D VENICE BL Forthmann House L years, membership rose walls and vertical A R E H SANTA MONICA FW F Y 10 to make way for O Y SECTION 3 – USC/EXPOSITION PARK gold stripes, symbol- S from 143 to 236. The bar’s E 7TH ST GE 1 T Natland had 500 tons R OR U O GI 21 C A ST Felix Chevrolet the twin towers. O T revenue tripled. 10 izing the black gold O H hauled away and cut P 18TH ST 22 Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center ION TAT GR GRAND AVE S AN of the oil industry, D AV and polished into stat- FLOWER Opened in 1972 as E 23 University of Southern California LOVELACE ST BLVD TON B ASHING O W N A P ARK SALLO LOS ANGELES soared skyward V NO E GROVE ues and tables, which sold RW 110 TRADE TECH 24 AV Exposition Park Rose Garden OOD ST the tallest buildings in E HA F 20TH ST for 13 stories to a IGU for as much as $40,000 each. RBO 25 Natural History Museum EROA E Los Angeles, the towers ST R R ELL FW ST A AV 21ST ST steel tower blazing Arco Towers (now City Even better, the rock he called E Y 26 EPICC were designed by A. C. Martin 22ND ST LIBRARY National Plaza) under 21ST ST RESEARCH 27 the company’s Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Natlandite became the official HOP PUBLIC E ST Partners, both architects and construction, 1970. HISTORY name vertically 28 California African American Museum ANGELES rock of the City of Los Angeles. 23RD ST ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL structural engineers, in the LOS / WESTERN 29 R-I-C-H-F-I-E-L-D. 11 California Science Center C FOR H 14 ST J E S TE AM SCARFF R modernist International Style. ES PK PL COLLECTION 30 USC Widney Alumni House ST CENTER PK ST JAMES BLVD PACIFIC ST ADAMS 12 JA SEAVER 18 15 ME 16 S PL OF 13 17 SECTIONSES CTION 2 PA SECURITY YOU ARE HERE Richfield Building entry sculpture, 1963. The Art 27TH ST STR OF COURTESY Richfield Building, c. 1930. Deco black and gold building was built in 1929. PHOTO COURTESY Figures are at UC Santa Barbara campus. PHOTO Special Thanks to: Project Team: Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa Deanna Molloy, Executive Director City Council of the City of Los Angeles Angels Walk LA Eric Garcetti, President Diego Nunez, Director of Operations LIBRARY Councilmember Jan Perry Angels Walk LA LIBRARY Councilmember Bernard Parks Rogerio Carvalheiro, Stanchion Designer PUBLIC PUBLIC RESEARCH Cecilia Rasmussen, Writer Supported by: Patt Morrison, Writer ANGELES HISTORY ANGELES City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services John Molloy, Planning Consultant LOS LOS Los Angeles Department of Transportation Graphics: Lane+Lane Design Office / / WESTERN Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Map: Cartifact FOR COLLECTION Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council COLLECTION Figueroa Corridor Partnership Acknowledgements: CENTER PACIFIC South Park Stakeholders Group Nick Patsaouras, Polis Builders, LTD PACIFIC SEAVER South Park Business Improvement District Bill Robertson, Director, Bureau of Street Services OF SECURITY SECURITY OF OF COURTESY COURTESY COURTESY PHOTO For more information about Angels Walk or for a copy of the Map/Guidebook, please contact the MTA Public Information Office at (213) 922-6000.