Among the travel-related art hanging on my walls is a poster of this shot taken by Garry Winogrand in 1964. The subject, of course, is LAX’s Theme Building , which opened in 1961 and is among Los Angeles’ most intriguing landmarks. To me, few buildings say more about Los Angeles, a city ever focused on the future, often at the expense of the past, than this Tomorrowland-esque structure. The two women in the photo, I like to imagine, have donned their finest dresses and highest heels for a transatlantic flight, perhaps to Paris or London. The L.A. sun is beaming down on them. The future couldn’t be brighter.
That was then, and the building is now undergoing a $14 million renovation. Its stucco has been removed and the skeleton is exposed. It’s quite a sight.
The LA Weekly’s Mark Mauer has put together a nice little photo essay about it.
“[T]hough we’re coming up on a year and a half since the building was closed,” he writ...
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