In the 1930s, even LA’s dogs and cats got a lovely Art Deco hospital to go to. Moxley’s dog and cat hospital at 940 N. Highland Ave, Hollywood, just south of Santa Monica Blvd. Dr. Moxley built this hospital in 1930 and he and his family lived in the apartment on the 2nd story. I do love the little touches on the exterior, such as the groups of three dots, the chevroning across the balcony, and if you look closely, you can see the bas-relief animals along the front of the building.
And get a load of the Art Deco features on the inside!
This is how that building looked in May 2024. It’s still there, but a lot more plain. However, right next is a company called Wag Hotels, where pet owners can board or day-care their dogs and cats, so at least the neighborhood has continued the tradition.
Such a shame, as the new building looks nothing like the original. Again we see a building today that looks like a box with no personality to it at all. Why does this keep happening???? Do people today have no flair??? All these current photo’s that Martin sends us look so boring compared to the 1930 architecture. It truly is shameful!!!!
Every city does this. Not uncommon at all. In NYC they tore down the Waldorf-Astoria and Penn Station, for example.
Yeah, and Trump tore down the old Bonwit Teller to put up his ugly Tower. Plus, he destroyed the Art Deco figures he said he’d let preservationists have.
A world full of IDIOTS!!!!!
There was an art deco pet place that used to be at the Melrose Triangle area in West Hollywood where Melrose, Santa Monica Blvd. and Doheny converge. People tried saving it and the surrounding block of buildings, but to no avail. They’ve dug a huge hole in the ground there, but nothing’s been happening since for at least two years, IMO.
I was wondering, at the time all these Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings were being built, if people took them for granted, like we do with buildings now, or just didn’t think much about them being so special. I guess you could say that about any of the buildings from the past we look back on. A lot of people didn’t want LACMA demolished, which was built over 50 years ago. It seems every fifty years people want to tear things down that they think are old, etc. I mean, in the latter ’70s they almost tore down Radio City Music Hall in NYC.
I’d be in favor of tearing down most anything Frank Gehry designed, though. 🙂
I do not understand why people would tear down buildings just to leave a big hole in the ground for two years???? What is the sense in that??? I would much rather look at a beautiful art deco building even if it were empty that a hole in the ground!!!!!