Glendale

#238: Grand Central Air Terminal (Glendale)

#238: Grand Central Air Terminal (Glendale)

October 12, 2024
Aviation
Glendale's Grand Central Air Terminal was the first commercial airport in Los Angeles. While it’s been closed to air traffic since 1959, GCAT’s beautiful terminal building – restored by Disney to its near-original condition – is one of the best-preserved emblems of the birth of commercial aviation in Los Angeles.
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#230: Mariposa Street Bridge (Burbank)

#230: Mariposa Street Bridge (Burbank)

August 18, 2024
Recreation
Since 1939, Mariposa Street Bridge has connected the equestrian neighborhoods of Burbank & Glendale with the bridle trails of Griffith Park. It’s a reminder that, even though this is a car town, cowboy culture is still alive in LA.
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#192: Doctors House (Glendale)

#192: Doctors House (Glendale)

March 9, 2024
Architecture
The Doctors House is a rare Victorian home in Glendale once occupied by four doctors, a silent movie star and two families of Croatian immigrants. After facing demolition, it was saved by the Glendale Historical Society and moved to Brand Park. It now operates as a house museum.
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#114: Alex Theatre (Glendale)

#114: Alex Theatre (Glendale)

September 1, 2022
Entertainment
The Alex Theatre is the last of Glendale's grand movie palaces. Opened in 1925 as a venue for vaudeville and silent films, it spent decades as a first-run movie theater, and more recently as a vital performing arts center. The iconic marquee and tower, added in 1940, projects a timeless opulence befitting a building that's endured nearly 100 years of ownership changes, fires, renovations and the changing tastes of the public.
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#105: Ard Eevin (Glendale)

#105: Ard Eevin (Glendale)

July 3, 2022
Architecture
This eclectic 1903 mansion was the home of Daniel Campbell, an Irishman who emigrated to CA with $50, made a fortune in the Klondike gold rush, brought his family out to LA and soon became one of Glendale’s early civic leaders during the city’s first major growth spurt.
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#102: Glendale Main Post Office

#102: Glendale Main Post Office

June 15, 2022
Architecture
This stately post office has served the city of Glendale since 1934, and survived multiple waves of USPS consolidations. Yes, its Italian Renaissance revival style was old hat by the time it was built – but what a lovely example it is!
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#83: Glendale YMCA

#83: Glendale YMCA

March 27, 2022
Architecture
The Glendale chapter of the YMCA counted 17% of the city as members in 1931 – including a young John Wayne. Here is its stately Spanish colonial home.
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#81: Hotel Glendale

#81: Hotel Glendale

March 20, 2022
Architecture
Once the tallest building in Glendale, the beaux arts Hotel Glendale stands as a monument to the ambitious development that the city underwent in the 1920s
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#3: Catalina Verdugo Adobe (Glendale)

#3: Catalina Verdugo Adobe (Glendale)

October 10, 2021
Pioneers & Settlers
In which I visit the Catalina Verdugo Adobe, said to be the oldest extant house in Glendale. Situated on land that was once part of a massive Spanish rancho, this adobe was the site of an important 1847 parley that helped end the Mexican-American War in 1847.
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