<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: The offices of Municipal Light, Water, and Power at the intersection of 59th Place and Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, 1936 </title> <atom:link href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 01:11:54 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title> By: Bill Wolfe </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-405003</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Wolfe]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 01:11:54 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-405003</guid> <description><![CDATA[As a long-time employee of the Department of Public Works, now retired, I feel obligated to point out that the Bureau of Water and the Bureau of Power and Light, mentioned in the above post, were both Bureaus in the Department of Public Works, before eventually being formed into the present Department of Water and Power. Also, William Mulholland, who brought water to the city via the Owens River Aquaduct, was the City Engineer, meaning who was the head of the Bureau of Engineering, which was and remains a bureau in the Department of Public Works.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a long-time employee of the Department of Public Works, now retired, I feel obligated to point out that the Bureau of Water and the Bureau of Power and Light, mentioned in the above post, were both Bureaus in the Department of Public Works, before eventually being formed into the present Department of Water and Power. Also, William Mulholland, who brought water to the city via the Owens River Aquaduct, was the City Engineer, meaning who was the head of the Bureau of Engineering, which was and remains a bureau in the Department of Public Works.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Gordon </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404994</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gordon]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:45:30 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404994</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404844">Jim Lewi</a>. Wowsers! Beautiful.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404844">Jim Lewi</a>.</p> <p>Wowsers! Beautiful.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: john </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404855</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[john]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:44:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404855</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404849">Martin Pal</a>. I understand what you are saying Martin but no matter what the reasoning is it is still so sad to see this part of history being destroyed. LA had some remarkable architecture in the 30s compared to now.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404849">Martin Pal</a>.</p> <p>I understand what you are saying Martin but no matter what the reasoning is it is still so sad to see this part of history being destroyed. LA had some remarkable architecture in the 30s compared to now.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Patti S. </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404851</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patti S.]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:23:59 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404851</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oh, they should have kept that building the way it was! So many gems that everyone could enjoy and they are gone! So sad.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, they should have kept that building the way it was! So many gems that everyone could enjoy and they are gone! So sad.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Martin Pal </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404849</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Pal]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:38:23 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404849</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404843">john</a>. John, I've said before that older buildings with tile or ornamental attachments or lots of glass windows or the like have become fewer because SoCal has earthquakes and that stuff isn't allowed any more and/or some of these buildings have been damaged beyond repair during earthquakes. (It's said that's why the Hollywood Brown Derby was demolished.) Your statement seems to suggest that someone just tore down that building to replace it with that one. We don't know that for a fact. Just because we want something to stay around, doesn't mean that it's feasible to do so. I don't think I'm wrong, but you could email the L.A. Conservancy and see if they have an answer you might find suitable. General Inquiries: info@laconservancy.org Also, this is not a Los Angeles problem. A lot business people and corporations don't really care about any of this. That's why the Richfield Building was destroyed. That's why LACMA's being done over. The NBC Building got bulldozed with no consideration for it's history or design only 25 years after it was built. Ironically the bank that replaced it is now being championed as worth "saving" because of it's iconic Hollywood mosaics. As mentioned earlier with the Pig & Whistle Restaurant next to the Egyptian, there are people who own properties who simply don't care about history or anything else, too. Sometimes noteworthy buildings are left vacant so long they get more and more unstable. The lovely First National Bank Building at Hollywood and Highland has been vacant too long. What's going to happen to it? On the other hand, on Dec. 19th, the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Boyle Heights--it was just voted on by the L.A. Board of Supervisors to reinvest, adaptively reuse and reactivate this long vacant 1930s Art Deco landmark. It's like that TV theme song, "You take the good, you take the bad, you add it up and there you have the facts of life." Also, people generally see what they want to see. Or, "What you look for is what you find."]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404843">john</a>.</p> <p>John, I’ve said before that older buildings with tile or ornamental attachments or lots of glass windows or the like have become fewer because SoCal has earthquakes and that stuff isn’t allowed any more and/or some of these buildings have been damaged beyond repair during earthquakes. (It’s said that’s why the Hollywood Brown Derby was demolished.) Your statement seems to suggest that someone just tore down that building to replace it with that one. We don’t know that for a fact. Just because we want something to stay around, doesn’t mean that it’s feasible to do so. I don’t think I’m wrong, but you could email the L.A. Conservancy and see if they have an answer you might find suitable. General Inquiries: <a href="mailto:info@laconservancy.org">info@laconservancy.org</a></p> <p>Also, this is not a Los Angeles problem. A lot business people and corporations don’t really care about any of this. That’s why the Richfield Building was destroyed. That’s why LACMA’s being done over. The NBC Building got bulldozed with no consideration for it’s history or design only 25 years after it was built. Ironically the bank that replaced it is now being championed as worth “saving” because of it’s iconic Hollywood mosaics. As mentioned earlier with the Pig & Whistle Restaurant next to the Egyptian, there are people who own properties who simply don’t care about history or anything else, too.</p> <p>Sometimes noteworthy buildings are left vacant so long they get more and more unstable. The lovely First National Bank Building at Hollywood and Highland has been vacant too long. What’s going to happen to it? On the other hand, on Dec. 19th, the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Boyle Heights–it was just voted on by the L.A. Board of Supervisors to reinvest, adaptively reuse and reactivate this long vacant 1930s Art Deco landmark.</p> <p>It’s like that TV theme song, “You take the good, you take the bad, you add it up and there you have the facts of life.” Also, people generally see what they want to see. Or, “What you look for is what you find.”</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Martin Turnbull </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404847</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Turnbull]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:56:10 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404847</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404846">Gina Sanderso</a>. Hmmm...I guess it's possible, albeit <em>heavily </em>renovated.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404846">Gina Sanderso</a>.</p> <p>Hmmm…I guess it’s possible, albeit <em>heavily </em>renovated.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Gina Sanderso </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404846</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gina Sanderso]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:52:01 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404846</guid> <description><![CDATA[Could that be the same building, just refronted/modernized in the 60s?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could that be the same building, just refronted/modernized in the 60s?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Martin Turnbull </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404845</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Turnbull]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:57:22 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404845</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404844">Jim Lewi</a>. I might've known this was a SCL building!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404844">Jim Lewi</a>.</p> <p>I might’ve known this was a SCL building!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Jim Lewi </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404844</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Lewi]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:16:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404844</guid> <description><![CDATA[Spectacular, and designed by the great theatre architect, S. Charles Lee.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spectacular, and designed by the great theatre architect, S. Charles Lee.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: john </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2023/12/29/the-offices-of-municipal-light-water-and-power-at-the-intersection-of-59th-place-and-vermont-ave-los-angeles-1936-2/#comment-404843</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[john]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:05:05 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=28341#comment-404843</guid> <description><![CDATA[Once again I wonder why anyone in their right mind would destroy an icon of a building just to erect a shoe box building to be built in it's place. Can someone answer this question for me please??? It makes no sense at all!!! Have we as a nation lost all sense of style? I get so angry when I see the present day photo's.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once again I wonder why anyone in their right mind would destroy an icon of a building just to erect a shoe box building to be built in it’s place. Can someone answer this question for me please??? It makes no sense at all!!!<br /> Have we as a nation lost all sense of style? I get so angry when I see the present day photo’s.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>