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8 Chouinard Institute of the Arts/Korean New Times Presbyterian Church Morgan, Walls, and Clements, 1929 743 S. Grand View St. Founded in 1921 as a progressive art school, it merged in 1969 with Walt and Roy Disney’s CalArts, and moved to Valencia. From 1972 until it became a church in 1974, the Woman’s Building operated here. In recent years Workers’ Meeting (1932), the first of three controversial murals David Alfaro Siquieros completed in LA, was discovered beneath layers of paint in the church’s kitchen. 9 Radiotron 9. radiotron Graffiti art decorates walls of the community center, 1985 Photo from the Herald Examiner. Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection. Building no longer extant 715 S. Park View St. Carmelo Alvarez ran the Youth Break Center at Radiotron from 1983 to 1985, as a safe social space for kids to breakdance, do graffiti, MC, and DJ. It became the focal point for early hip hop culture on the West Coast and center to the first Graffiti Art Crews in LA. When the building was razed in 1985, activities from the youth center moved to the bandshell in MacArthur Park.
10 American Cement Building DMJM, 1964 2404 Wilshire Blvd. A dramatic use of concrete intended to promote the American Cement company, the latticework of two-ton cast concrete “X”s supports the building from the outside, leaving interiors free of supporting beams—great for the 71 live/work lofts now occupying the space. 10. AMERICAN CEMENT BUILDING On Park View looking toward Wilshire, 1960 Photo by Julius Shulman. Copyright J. Paul Getty Trust. 11 Otis Art Institute/Charles White Elementary School William L. Pereira, 1957 2401 Wilshire Blvd. LA Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis built the first residence on Wilshire Blvd. here in 1898, and bequeathed it to the county for an art school in 1917. The Otis Art Institute, which operated on this site from 1918 until 1997, demolished the Otis residence to create the school campus that still stands today. Though acting as an elementary school since 2004, the west wall still hosts a mural by Kent Twitchell, The Holy Trinity (with TV stars from Lassie, The Lone Ranger, and Father Knows Best used as models).
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