Legacy Businesses in Immigrant Neighborhoods Trudi Sandmeier 00:00Today on Save As … Xiaoling Fang 00:02These small places might not look fancy or unique or iconic from outside, but it’s such an important pinch point for the community. Trudi Sandmeier 00:12Welcome to Save As:…
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Is Leimert Park L.A.’s Most Significant Neighborhood? Trudi Sandmeier 00:00 Today on Save As: Kira Williams 00:02 I would find a picture of somewhere or an article about something, and the next time I drove past that place, I was…
Is Leimert Park L.A.’s Most Significant Neighborhood?
Is Leimert Park the most significant neighborhood in Los Angeles? Katie Horak thinks it might be. “I don’t think there’s any neighborhood in the city that tells so many different important stories about our history as a city, and that really has the integrity to still tell that story,” she says in this episode of Save As. A USC alum, principal at Architectural Resources Group, and adjunct professor, Katie took her students out of the classroom and into the neighborhood to document Leimert Park’s remarkable architectural and cultural heritage.
We also talk with three of Katie’s students—Zongqi Li, Emily Varley, and Kira Williams—about what they found on their adventure. They unraveled a mystery about how Leimert Park developed, saw how persistent racism affected African American and Japanese American residents, and traced the evolution of schools and churches. You’ll hear why Katie considers Leimert Park so important—and you might even agree.
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Boots on the Ground: Archaeology and Community at Manzanar Cindy Olnick 0:00 Today on Save As… Tia Morita 0:01 It’s just a way to, you know, remember my family’s history, to respect this place, pay homage to what happened here,…
Boots on the Ground: Archaeology and Community at Manzanar
Last month, about ninety volunteers spent a weekend excavating the former hospital site at Manzanar, a World War II incarceration camp about 225 miles north of Los Angeles. Some of those volunteers were students in Mary Ringhoff’s Cultural Resource Management class. One of those students was Save As producer Willa Seidenberg, who interviewed people on site about why they travel from near and far to care for this site of tragic memory. In this episode, we dig into the study of archaeology with Mary, hear Willa’s great reporting, and talk with student Dani Velazco about what she got out of the experience (besides getting very, very dirty).
Quantity and Quality: Modernism and More
In this grab bag of SoCal history, we talk with alum Sian Winship, an architectural historian with her fingers in many, many pies. She explored the world of modernist tract homes in her master’s thesis, Quantity and Quality: Architects Working for Developers in Southern California, 1960-1973. Quantity and quality also characterize this wide-ranging conversation about mid-century modernism, women’s heritage, social justice, the Civil War, and Palm Springs’ dirty secret. Sian also shares her path from advertising to conservation and how she used gravel as a career move.
Culture, Community, and the Holiday Bowl
In 2003, the majority of the beloved Holiday Bowl in L.A.’s Crenshaw district was demolished. Although the bowling alley–a big box profoundly important to the community–was lost, the coffee shop–a Googie gem designed by Armet and Davis–remains standing and is now a Starbucks. Today’s guest Katie Horak analyzed the efforts to save the Holiday Bowl in her 2006 thesis. Listen as Katie reflects on her research, how times have changed in terms of valuing cultural significance, and why communities should tell their own stories. Now a leader in our field, she’s come back to USC as a teacher, inspiring the next generation of heritage conservationists.