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Novelty or eccentric architecture is more properly known as “mimetic architecture” but if you ask me, “mimetic” is way too boring a name. In my head, I tend to think of it as “crazy-ass-wtf-what-were-they-thinking” architecture and several of L.A.’s fine … Continue reading →

Mother Goose Pantry, late 1920s. This unique example of mimetic architecture (a building constructed in an unusual shape as a novelty) stood at 1955 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena.