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Victo Barnabas Pacific Telephone Buiding, 165 Marine Street (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba Grand Street and Promenade (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba Grand Street with Speedway intersection looking east (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba Pier Avenue looking north towards Santa Monica Pier, Metropole Hotel in foreground (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba View northeast on Pier Avenue from the Promenade (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba* 150 Marine Street, between Promenade and Neilson Way (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba* Masonic Temple, 158 Marine Street at Neilson Way looking toward Main Street (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba Security First National Bank, 168 Pier Street at Neilson Way (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba* Surf Street at Promenade (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Victor Barnaba Speedway between Hill and Surf Streets (Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 See Image and Text
Reyner Banham Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, Pelican: NY, 1971(1976), 256 pp., 1976, 1971, 1964, 1930s, 1910, 1849, See Text
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1964 See Text
Dennis McLellan Pierre Salinger, 79; Press Secretary for Kennedy, Longtime ABC Reporter, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 2004 B14, 15, 2004a, 1964 See Text
Walter Mosley Bad Boy Brawly Brown Phoenix: London 2004 (2002), 311 pp. (1964) See Text
Jeffrey Stanton* Venice of America: 'Coney Island of the Pacific,' Donahue Publishing: Los Angeles, CA, 1987, 176 pp., 1964, 1963, 1960s, 1959, 1958, 1956 See Text
Documents
Victor Barnaba* 150 Marine Street, between Promenade and Neilson Way(Ocean Park Redevelopment Project) 1964 -Victor Barnaba *
Reyner Banham Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, Pelican: NY, 1971(1976), 256 pp., 1976, 1971, 1964, 1930s, 1910, 1849,
"Planning in Los Angeles? . . . for this has always been a planned city; Lieutenant Ord's survey map of 1849 is also a plan for further development, and . . . a historical report to the Mayor in 1964. . . .
". . . the proposal that the city shall develop much as it has . . . clusters of towers in a sea of single family dwellings." p. 137
"(1910) an appropriation of $100 . . . for the Planning Committee; . .
" . . . planning . . . is one of those admired facets of the the established Liberal approach to urban problems that has never struck root in the libertarian, but illiberal, atmosphere of Los Angeles (whatever pockets of conventional good planning may have been created by local pockets of conventional liberal thinking)." pp. 138-139
"Conventional standards of planning do not work in Los Angeles, . . . effective planning to the mechanisms that have already given the city its present character: the infrastructure to giant agencies like the Division of Highways and the Metropolitan Water District and their like; the intermediate levels of management to the subdivision and zoning ordinances; the detail decisions to local and private initiatives; with ad hoc interventions by city, State and pressure-groups formed to agitate over matters of clear and present need. . . . " p. 139
"This is not to claim that any of these mechanisms is any more perfect than any other human institution, or works more than averagely well . . . Bending the zoning regulations is reckoned to be a bigger area of graft than the vice industry, since changes in zoning directly affect land-values and thus impinge on the oldest Angeleno method of turning a fast buck. . .
"Outside the administrative area of the City of Los Angeles itself, the other communities . . . have their own views on the meaning and purpose of zoning practices, and in some cases they have drafted them, and employed them, to reinforce local town planning {in order to} remain exclusive. . . . " p. 141
"So recreational living tends to become another synonym for the social 'turf' system of closed communities; systematic planning remains the creation of privileged enclaves. Less frequently it has meant the creation of underprivileged enclaves, since much of the residential planning of the late thirties, for instance, was intended to create tidy places to dispose of socially untidy people, the lower working classes as understood in the political dogma of the time. . . . Within a couple more years, with the war about to break out, this kind of residential planning became a matter of urgency to house the influx of new industrial workers. pp. 145 and 146.
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1964
Ocean Park
"16. Santa Monica Shores, 2700 Neilson Way. Twin seventeen-story apartments built in 1964 by the Del Webb Corporation as the initial phase of a proposed redevelopment project. The architects were Welton Beckett and Associates."
Dennis McLellan Pierre Salinger, 79; Press Secretary for Kennedy, Longtime ABC Reporter, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 2004 B14, 15, 1964
Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown appointed Pierre Salinger (1925-2004) U. S. Senator to finish the term of Clair Engel who had died of a brain tumor. Salinger had won the Democratic nomination over State Controller Alan Cranston. In November, 1964, Salinger was beaten by Republican George Murphy in the election for California U.S. Senator, 2004a
Walter Mosley Bad Boy Brawly Brown Phoenix: London 2004 (2002), 311 pp. (1964)
Chapter 14
"Instead of going directly to my car, I walked the short block down to the beach. Santa Monica still had the feel of a small town in '64. Wooden buildings painted in primary colors, small storefronts that specialized in trinkets made from seashell. . . ." p. 109
"The 1964 season was the [POP] park's most successful attendance wise. It drew 1,663,013 visitors. New rides included a flat ride called the Himalaya near the Sea Circus, and a Monster Mouse steel roller coaster where Fun Forest stood. The coaster's ability to make 90 degree turns made the ride downright frightening. Passengers thought that the cars had jumped the track as the front of its small cars hung over the narrow track before they abruptly turned. The smaller Flying Fish 'wild mouse' was replaced by a small Ferris Wheel and tilted centrifuge, called the Mixer that was located elsewhere in the park, and the kiddie rides were moved to the Fisherman's Village area."