Here’s an Art Deco / Streamline Moderne gem in downtown L.A. that I’ve never come across before. Built in 1929, it was known as the Bankers Building at 629 S. Hill St., downtown Los Angeles. Get a load of that wonderful three-tiered whatever-you-call-it above the entrance door on the right. (Not to mention that motorcar parked out front!) The building is still there – it’s now known as the Los Angeles Jewelry Center. That three-tiered whatever-you-call-it is gone but Google Streetview shows us the building was clad in glorious green tile.
UPDATE: The three tiered “whatever-you-call-it” is a Frozen Fountain, an architectural and interior design motif introduced in France around the time of the 1925 “Art Deco” Exposition.
The movie “The Banker” is currently playing on Apple TV, and tells a good chunk on the fascinating history of this building. Plus it’s a good story on LA history, as well as baby steps in desegregation.
This movie is a drive and motivation beyond anything else. I think Black people have become too acclimated to just accepting that, “This is how things are.” To this very day in Saint Louis, Missouri you have Blacks that have not ventured to the other side of town because there is an imaginary red line holding them to where they reside, or to the areas that are designated to them. Kind of like a dog invisible fence. It is heart wrenching. Nothing has changed.
Here’s an Art Deco / Streamline Moderne gem in downtown L.A. that I’ve never come across before. Built in 1929, it was known as the Bankers Building at 629 S. Hill St., downtown Los Angeles. Get a load of that wonderful three-tiered whatever-you-call-it above the entrance door on the right. (Not to mention that motorcar parked out front!) The building is still there – it’s now known as the Los Angeles Jewelry Center. That three-tiered whatever-you-call-it is gone but Google Streetview shows us the building was clad in glorious green tile.
The movie “The Banker” is currently playing on Apple TV, and tells a good chunk on the fascinating history of this building. Plus it’s a good story on LA history, as well as baby steps in desegregation.
Thanks, Constance.
No Ma’am. This movie shows the extent that white America will go and has gone to maintain a White Supremacist society.
You got that right!!
This movie is a drive and motivation beyond anything else. I think Black people have become too acclimated to just accepting that, “This is how things are.” To this very day in Saint Louis, Missouri you have Blacks that have not ventured to the other side of town because there is an imaginary red line holding them to where they reside, or to the areas that are designated to them. Kind of like a dog invisible fence. It is heart wrenching. Nothing has changed.