Preservation

Bob Hope Patriotic Hall Tour
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Bob Hope Patriotic Hall Tour

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LAVA and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission invite you to join them for a free tour of a downtown landmark that is also home to a contemporary lobby mural by Kent Twitchell: Bob Hope Patriotic Hall (Allied Architects,1925).

Brigadier General Ruth Wong (US Air Force, Ret.), the Director of the County of of Los Angeles’ Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, will lead the tour of the building and discuss its history. Archivist Glen Roosevelt will share some of the historic military artifacts held in the Patriotic Hall. And artist Kent Twitchell will be on hand to discuss his 2010 commission to replace the original 1942 lobby murals (by Pasadena artist Helen Lundeberg), which were lost during a 1970s renovation.

Space is limited for this free event, so please only RSVP if you can attend. No “plus ones”—each attendee must sign up with a unique name and email address.

Parking around Patriotic Hall is quite limited so please give yourself plenty of time to find a spot, or take public transportation.

Historic Hotel Californian neon sign rededication
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Historic Hotel Californian neon sign rededication

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You are cordially invited to join us for the rededication and re-lighting of the Hotel Californian sign atop The Paseo at Californian, part of the ribbon cutting of this new low-income housing development on the site of the demolished 1925 Hotel Californian. We have been eagerly awaiting this day since the sign was installed in May 2016, as reported on the Esotouric blog.

Presenters at the event include neon artisan and historian Paul Greenstein, who will discuss his restoration of the sign as well as its complicated journey from the rooftop of the Hotel Californian to its long exile near Griffith Park and back to Westlake.

The Paseo at Californian is a 100% affordable large family property consisting of 53 affordable apartments (1, 2 and 3 bedrooms) financed with, among other programs, affordable housing tax credits. The building represents a 7-year long effort of its developers, banks, funding partners and City and State agencies, each of which are committed to providing Los Angeles with high quality, sustainable, affordable housing.