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chickenboy.com chickenboyshop.com Chicken Boy Gazette futurestudiogallery.com Chicken Boy © & TM Future Studio MAY 2018 • THE STATUE OF LIBERTY OF LOS ANGELES IN HIGHLAND PARK SINCE 2007 chicken boy at future studio • 5558 North figueroa Street • los angeles 90042 North Figueroa Streetscape Mosaics SOUTH AVENUE 59 TILE: Two trollies along North Figueroa Street and Avenue Along both sides of Figueroa, between Avenue10/22/13 50 and Avenue 60, you’ll 57 in 1906, looking north. In 1895, the 10/22/13 HIGHLAND PARK STREETSCAPEfind IMPROVEMENT intricately designed PROJECT mosaics embedded into the sidewalk beneath your HIGHLAND PARK STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT TILE MOSAICS Pasadena Street Railroad Electric Line feet and recently installed by Axiom Group. Designed by SWA Landscape mergedTILE MOSAICS with the Los Angeles Electric 50-60 Architects, who conceived the idea of bringing historical mosaics to the Railway50-60 to form the Pasadena and Los Figueroa Corridor, and created by Brailsford Public Art, these colorful Angeles Railway. This line ran from mosaics celebrate key scenes from the history of Highland Park. This project downtown through Highland Park and Garvanza to Pasadena and back. That falls within one of fifteen areas being revitalized under Mayor Garcetti’s same year, Highland Park was annexed to Great Streets Program, and was the result of close collaboration between the the City of Los Angeles and established community and city, including the Office of Councilmember Gil Cedillo and one of the city’s first suburbs. Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI) and was made possible by a Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library federally funded program that allows states and localities to preserve and improve pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. A Hahamog’na villager prepares food. “To-vah-aht,” or acorn, was a staple in the Tongva diet Mt. Washington Railway Incline Station NORTH AVENUE 60 TILE: SOUTH AVENUE 58 TILE: The Sunbeam Figueroa Street and York Boulevard Theater in Highland Park, considered intersection in the 1880s. Rancho San a cinema treasure, was designed by A. Rafael was sold at an auction, then Lawrence Valk, and built in 1914. The subdivided to create one of the first theatre was once located at 5722 North suburbs in Los Angeles—Highland Figueroa Street. Park. Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library 10/22/13 Figueroa and York Boulevard intersection in the 1880s. Rancho San Rafael was sold at an auc- HIGHLAND PARK STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT tion, then subdivided to create one of the first suburbs in Los Angeles, Highland Park TILE MOSAICS Rosalio Munoz, co-chair of the LA Chicano Moratorium, was an important figure in the Chicano empowerment50-60 movement in Highland Park during the 60s and 70s. NORTH AVENUE 59 TILE: The Garibaldina MB Society Clubhouse, located at 4533 North Figueroa SOUTH AVENUE 57 TILE: Current Street, has served as a gathering members of the Highland Park Ebell place for the Italian-American Club,Highland Park established Car Show in 1903. The clubhouse community of Los Angeles since 1877. on South Avenue 57 was built in 1913. Courtesy of Italian American Museum of Los Current photo of Ebell Ladies Club Angeles A store in Highland Park that sold groceries, four, feed, cigars and tobacco, and was also the Post Office. A horse and buggy are in front Highland Park Car Show NORTH AVENUE 58 TILE: The Lummis House, also known as SOUTH AVENUE 56 TILE: Chicken Boy, El Alisal, was built with arroyo stone aka the Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles, by Charles Fletcher Lummis in the with a view of the historic Highland late 19th century. Today, the property Theatre rooftop sign. The Garibaldina Clubhouse groundbreaking at 4533 North Figueroa Boulevard. Workers laying the last rails of the San Gabriel Railroad in Highland Park. Circa 1885 is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and on the list of the National Register of Historic Places. Chicken Boy at Future Studio Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library ROSELAWN PLACE TILE: In 1909, a hotel was built on the summit of Mt. Washington, leading to the construction NORTH AVENUE 57 TILE: of an incline railway station to transport Established in 1891, J.P. Stockdale’s people from Avenue 43 and Marmion Charles Lummis’ house, El Alisal General Store was the first to open Way to the hotel. The incline railway Carlos Almaraz’s mural is of a prize fighter sitting on a stool in his corner as a woman walks Galco’s Soda Pop Shop 10/22/13 on what is now considered the main encouragedaround the ring with a sign “Roundthe 200” residential development HIGHLAND PARK STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT Figueroa Street business district of Mt. Washington and Highland Park TILE MOSAICS neighborhoods. in Highland Park. One year later, it TILE MOSAIC PLAN Courtesy of USC Digital Library 50-60 became the first functioning Post 10/22/13 Office in Highland Park. HIGHLAND PARK STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT TILE MOSAICS Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library PLAN VIEW AT AVENUE 55 551 DARK GRAY DETECTABLE WARNING AND CURB RAMP 2 3’ X 6’ TILE MOSAIC 50-60 3 1’-3” X 6’ AVENUE NAME TILE MOSAIC SOUTH AVENUE 55 TILE: Portrait of 1 1 Horace T. Judson, of 3 Highland Park’s 3 2 famed Judson Studios, holding a stained A Hahamog’na villager prepares food. “To-vah-aht,” or acorn, was a staple in the Tongva diet NORTH AVENUE 56 TILE: Rosalio glass medallion for the window prayer in Muñoz was an important figure in the the Faith of Our Fathers Chapel. Chicano empowerment movement in Highland Park during the 1960s and SIDEWALK CORNERS 1970s. Courtesy of Rosalio Muñoz and George Portrait of Horace T. Judson holding a stained glass medallion for the window prayer in the Rodriguez. Faith of Our Fathers Chapel AVENUE 50 AVENUE 51 AVENUE 52 AVENUE PLACE ELLITA 53 AVENUE 54 AVENUE 55 AVENUE 56 AVENUE 57 AVENUE 58 AVENUE 59 AVENUE 60 AVENUE 61 AVENUE NORTH FIGUEROA STREET AVENUE 57 AVENUE AVENUE 50 AVENUE 52 AVENUE 53 AVENUE 54 AVENUE 55 AVENUE PLACE ROSELAWN 56 AVENUE 58 AVENUE 59 AVENUE 60 AVENUE NORTH AVENUE 55 TILE: SOUTH AVENUE 53 TILE: The GlenMary Figueroa and York Boulevard intersection in the 1880s. Rancho San Rafael was sold at an auc- A band of Tongva people called tion, then subdivided to create one of the first suburbs in Los Angeles, Highland Park the Hahamog’na inhabited what Archway at Sycamore Grove Park was is now called Highland Park for originally built in 1903 as a stop for the several thousand years, fishing for red car of the Pacific Electric Trolley. trout along the streambanks, and North Figueroa Street and Avenue 57 in 1906, looking north. Two electric cars marked “Slau- living peacefully in villages up and son Junction” are seen down the Arroyo Seco. The first Hahamog’na settlement is found at the edge of Millard Canyon at Hahamog’na watershed and Archaeological Park. Courtesy of Autry National Center A store in Highland Park that sold groceries, four, feed, cigars and tobacco, and was also the SOUTH AVENUE 54 TILE: Post Office. A horse and buggy are in front The Southwest Museum of the American Indian—a museum, library, and archive— was opened in 1907 with support from city leaders and Charles Fletcher Lummis. The museum moved from NORTH AVENUE 54 TILE: Workers ExteriorDowntown view of the Figueroa Los Theatre Angeles to its current laying the last rails of the San Gabriel location in Mt. Washington in 1914, and Railroad in Highland Park, circa 1885. has been there ever since. The museum overlooks Charles Lummis’ home. Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library Workers laying the last rails of the San Gabriel Railroad in Highland Park. Circa 1885 Southwest Museum Charles Lummis’ house, El Alisal Glen Mary archway at Sycamore Grove Park. The location of the archway has been a place for gathering since the Tongva people. Originally built in 1903 as a trolley station stop artwork © 2018 by sean hernandez.

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