{"id":10623,"date":"2020-03-11T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2020-04-27T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T01:29:37","slug":"it-had-nothing-to-do-with-a-stack-of-records-if-it-were-ihop-everyone-would-think-that-it-looks-like-a-stack-of-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/11\/it-had-nothing-to-do-with-a-stack-of-records-if-it-were-ihop-everyone-would-think-that-it-looks-like-a-stack-of-pancakes\/","title":{"rendered":"“It had nothing to do with a stack of records. If it were IHOP, everyone would think that it looks like a stack of pancakes.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Billboard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitol Records Architect Louis Naidorf Sets the Record Straight on Myth of Tower’s Iconic Design<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Pamela Chelin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Capitol Records building in Hollywood, Calif.
Bettmann\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“It had nothing to do with a stack of records. If it were IHOP, everyone would think that it looks like a stack of pancakes.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The 63-year-old Capitol Records Building may look like a stack of records with a rooftop spire resembling a phonograph needle, but according to its designer, 91-year-old architect Louis Naidorf<\/strong>, that’s just a coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I designed the bloody thing,” laughs Naidorf, speaking over the phone from his home in Santa Rosa, California. “Unequivocally, it had nothing to do with a stack of records. If it were IHOP, everyone would think that it looks like a stack of pancakes or plates. If it were Firestone, everyone would think that it looks like a stack of inner tubes. There are lots of things that look like that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Billboard Capitol Records Architect Louis Naidorf Sets the Record Straight on Myth of Tower’s Iconic Design by\u00a0Pamela Chelin “It had nothing to do with a stack of records. If it were IHOP, everyone would think that it looks like a stack of pancakes.” The 63-year-old Capitol Records Building may look like a stack of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}