Los Angeles in The 1930s by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

POINTS OF INTEREST

U. S. Post Office and Federal Building

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Gladding, McBean & Company Plant

Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute

Casa Adobe de San Rafael

Glendale Civic Auditorium

Verdugo Adobe

North of the mausoleum, on Sunrise Slope, is the TEMPLE OF SANTA SABINA, brought in 1929 from the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, where it had stood for 400 years, commemorating the martyred wife of the Roman Emperor, Valentinus, and now a memorial to E. L. Doheny, Jr. The baldachino, the work of the 16th-century sculptor, Poscetti, rests on slim marble columns above the sarcophagus-altar of rare marbles, inlaid with gold mosaic. On a high hill on the park’s northern boundary rises the TOWER OF LEGENDS, an 87-foot white concrete shaft, bearing Norse figures in relief. Many memorials and other statuary are scattered throughout the several sections—Slumberland, Graceland, Mystery of Life, Vale of Memory, Whispering Pines, and Babyland, in which are many pieces, including Sleepy Time, showing two small children asleep in a luxurious tasseled armchair of marble, with even the buttons of the upholstery faithfully represented, and the DUCK BABY, “the Spirit of Forest Lawn.”

3. The GLADDING, McBEAN AND COMPANY PLANT, 2901 Los Feliz Blvd. (display and stockrooms open 8-5), makes art tiles, pottery, roofing tiles, glazed tile facings, mosaics, and terra cotta ornaments, producing 80 per cent of the kiln products used in the larger downtown buildings of Los Angeles, which uses more terra cotta than any city in the United States. The products of the company have strongly influenced the development of the California version of Spanish mission design. Virtually all raw materials for the kilns come from deposits in Los Angeles County (see tour 3) and neighboring regions.

The GRAND CENTRAL AIR TERMINAL, 1224 Air Way, the Los Angeles terminus of the Pan-American Airways and the Mexican Aviation Company, is a United States Customs port of air entry. The offices and waiting rooms are in the neat tan stucco Terminal Building, on the Air Way side of the 220-acre landing field. The government-approved Grand Central Flying School has headquarters at the field, around which are several private flying schools and many aircraft shops. The air squad of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office is based here; hangars provide space for private planes.

The “crate” in which Douglas Corrigan “lost his way” on an announced flight from New York City to California in 1938, landing next day in Ireland, was pieced together and tuned up on this field.

The field, established in 1928 by a small group of aviation enthusiasts, passed the following year into the hands of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation which enlarged and developed it. It has recently been superseded in large part as a transcontinental and international airport by the Union Air Terminal at Burbank (see Tour 7).

4. The CURTISS-WRIGHT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE (visited 8-4, free; apply at office in Terminal Bldg.), which owns and operates Grand Central Air Terminal, is the largest school for aircraft mechanics in the country. There are (1939) approximately 500 students.

BRAND PARK, Mountain St. and Grandview Ave., an irregularly-shaped

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