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And when will the Baron be home this evening from the boar hunt?

In our age of "Big Art" people like Govan are only rewarded for thinking big. he is on the hunt for deep pockets – VERY DEEP pockets and none of those types of people want something small and nuanced to put their name on after writing a huge check. those types don’t do "infill" – they are the careless types from the Great Gatsby – tear down and bulldoze whoever is in your way for a grasp at immortality and ego…at least the cathedral builders were anonymous and had God in mind…

I am now on the hunt for a Western Holly porthole stove. http://retroburgh.blogspot.com/2010/10/1950s-western-holly-stoveoven-300.html

@guest #3: Go down there and try. Most have money. They roll up in Bentley’s and Benz’s. I tell you half of them look like they need a good shagging and very friendly even with a big rock on their fingers. So eager to share their cleanse experience. It take’s forever for them to make a darn smoothy so just chill and sock in all the MILF-ness. Roll by the Four Seasons and Peninsula also for the sugar mommy hunt.

This is how you make money on large public works jobs in America. You bid low, you hit all the "make the voter feel good" stipulations like MBE WBE OBE SBE SDVBE GTE LGBT SCE ATT PLA hiring goals to make you the "best" choice.

Then you bring in the lawyers, engineers and critical path scheduling experts and flood the owner with paperwork. Just bury them in it.

The in-house staff and firms that rep for the public agencies are working there because they aren’t good enough to work for the wolves that hunt them for change orders.

It costs a lot of time and money but in the end the incompetence of the civil service end of things guarantees you will make money. Just not in any kind of pace other than glacial.

They will make a killing because the authority still doesn’t own any of the land the tracks are going onto. That is a delay. That is easy money.

Sumner Hunt is perhaps the best architect of his day in Los Angeles. Every public building he designed is a LA Cultural Historic Monument. The AAA headquarters, Libraries, theaters, etc. The only "public" building that is not listed as such is a LAUSD school which can not be designated by the City because it is the school district’s world – that is the Louis Pasteur School on 18th Street in the Faircrest Heights Neighborhood which is now a magnet school known as LACES.

I know one millionaire who sold his Abbot Kinney condo to be closer to his friends. Venice is a looooong drive from Downtown, Hollywood, Silver Lake, etc. And this cute bungalow has parking for one car, so even if you can get a friend to visit, they will have to hunt for parking.

@guest #14:

Dude! YOU are clueless. Yes, if I were Transport God I would probably try to better distribute flight load. Unfortunately, I am not Transport God.

As a business operator, why would you run two big airports with middling efficiency and profitability? You wouldn’t. You would try to maximize the one business unit that has built in organic demand. It’s the reliable moneymaker. So yes, in a sense LAWA is responsible for "taking away" business from Ontario. But it’s only doing to because there is INSUFFICIENT DEMAND at Ontario. I’m sure LAWA would love to keep both LAX and ONT running at capacity but that dog don’t hunt. 1 winner > 2 losers.

One other notable structure designed by Sumner Hunt: The Bradbury Building.

Google Books or Google Scholar isn’t going to get you very far unless your architect is a noted one (i.e. Myron Hunt or someone of that caliber) or unless your house was featured in Architectural Record or a similar publication. ZIMAS won’t give you much historical information but will serve as a jumping-off point to find more by giving you the tract names and numbers and developers. Your best bet is to get a library card and log on to the LAPL. You can access the ProQuest Historical LA Times database and search by address to find any mentions of construction, events (fire! drama!), or owners/residents. Think of it as a historical Google.

You can also check the California Index from the LAPL website, which will turn up any historical mentions of your architect, contractor/developer, or address in architectural or other publications, provided that someone thought to index them. Also check the AVERY architectural database, although again, unless your architect is particularly significant this may not be as helpful for you.

Check the online city directories at the LAPL and search by address; once you’ve established your residents you can go back to ProQuest.

One source that almost never comes up in the discussion of images is the California State Library Picture Catalog (also searchable online). They have one of the largest collections of architectural photography available online anywhere.

Above all, be careful about how you are employing your search terms: use quotes around the street address and proper names to weed out mismatches; try spelling variations and with/without middle initials, etc. It is very easy to do but ProQuest in particular is nuanced in how it digitizes articles and you want to make sure you cover all your bases.

Also check the Los Angeles Conservancy’s website – they have a page with a downloadable research about researching properties called Landmark This! that covers almost all of your available resources in Southern California.