Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
by tanya
In 1961, the City of Riverside commissioned L. Ferranti to design two identical super-Googie parking garages on Orange. I don't have permission to post it directly, but HERE is a picture of one of these garages not long after it opened.
Here is a picture of the garage between Mission Inn ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
by tanya
Another Myrtle contribution: 3992 Brockton Avenue in 2000. Note the swell swiss cheese-patterned screen.
And here it is in 2007, sans screen.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
by tanya
Many thanks to Myrtle for these pictures of CalFed. They were taken in 2000, before the current owner made major alterations. On the horizon are pictures of modern showrooms still standing at Riverside Auto Mall, a profile on Milton Caughey (designer of some of Riverside's best postwar elementary ...
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