{"id":993,"date":"2008-03-27T19:53:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T02:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/san-pedro-art-deco-architecture\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T19:53:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T02:53:52","slug":"san-pedro-art-deco-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/san-pedro-art-deco-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"San Pedro Art Deco Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/warner-grand.jpg' title='warner-grand.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/warner-grand.jpg' alt='warner-grand.jpg' class='right' width='320' \/><\/a>I am a long-time admirer of Art Deco. Mom and Dad used to collect, buy and sell antiques, many of which were art deco pieces. I learned to appreciate art deco for it&#8217;s graceful curves and stark zig-zags &#8211; it is just elegant.<\/p>\n<p>I recently read a book about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcadiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Product_Code=0738546704&#038;Store_Code=arcadia&#038;search=art+deco&#038;offset=0&#038;filter_cat=&#038;PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&#038;sort=name.asc&#038;range_low=&#038;range_high=\">Long Beach Art Deco<\/a>, which is a historical look at the city as it was rebuilt after the devastating 1933 earthquake. It was a fascinating account with lots of black and white pictures taken of the disaster and the emerging structures.<\/p>\n<p>If you read our blog, you know that we like to visit the beaches and the harbor in San Pedro. While on a recent trip to the harbor, we toured around looking at the art deco buildings. Some of it is just beautiful, but some of it, sadly, needs more tender loving care.<\/p>\n<p>One fabulous example of an art deco structure that does get TLC is the Warner Grand Theater on 6th Avenue. This building is a time tunnel to the 1930s and 1940s. I think could stand here and absorb all the wonderful details for hours. Click on the picture to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a long-time admirer of Art Deco. Mom and Dad used to collect, buy and sell antiques, many of which were art deco pieces. I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}