{"id":6259,"date":"2015-01-17T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6259"},"modified":"2015-01-19T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T22:34:59","slug":"bullshit-451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/17\/bullshit-451\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullshit 451"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bulldoze first, apologize later: a true L.A. landmark<\/h1>\n

by Christopher Hawthorne<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheArchitect Thom Mayne, new owner of the late Ray Bradbury\u2019s home, says he plans to build a wall on the property that will pay tribute to the writer. (Byron Espinoza)<\/em><\/p>\n

It was beginning to feel like a demolition derby.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday,\u00a0<\/strong>word started to spread that the canary-yellow 1937 house in Cheviot Hills where the writer Ray Bradbury lived for more than 50 years was being knocked down.<\/p>\n

The person razing it to make room for a new house on the site was the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, whose firm Morphosis designed the Caltrans headquarters in downtown L.A. and a new campus for Emerson College in Hollywood, among other prominent buildings.<\/p>\n

The next day, the preservation group Los Angeles Conservancy added an alert to its website that the new owner of the 1957 Norms restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard, a time capsule of the space-age L.A. coffee-shop style known as Googie, had been granted a demolition permit on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n

By week’s end, Googie fans at least could breathe a sigh of relief. At a Thursday hearing on Norms at the Los Angeles\u00a0<\/strong>Cultural Heritage Commission, an attorney for\u00a0<\/strong>the owner said that there were “no current plans to demolish the property.” The commission voted to consider the building for cultural-monument status, protecting it for at least 75 days.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The LA Times Bulldoze first, apologize later: a true L.A. landmark by Christopher Hawthorne Architect Thom Mayne, new owner of the late Ray Bradbury\u2019s home, says he plans to build a wall on the property that will pay tribute to the writer. (Byron Espinoza) It was beginning to feel like a demolition derby. On […]<\/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":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259","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=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}