When it's one hundred in the shade Los Angeles is empty, and the sightlines are clear. There's the Hotel Figueroa that was opened on August 14, 1926, by the YWCA as a safe haven for unaccompanied female travelers, who were prohibited from checking into most hotels without a male chaperone – Italian Renaissance Revival by local architect Lester Hibbard. Now it's just hip. Across the street it's the Friday Morning Club, designed by architects Allison and Allison, built in 1923. The Friday...
more »When it's one hundred in the shade Los Angeles is empty, and the sightlines are clear. There's the Hotel Figueroa that was opened on August 14, 1926, by the YWCA as a safe haven for unaccompanied female travelers, who were prohibited from checking into most hotels without a male chaperone – Italian Renaissance Revival by local architect Lester Hibbard. Now it's just hip. Across the street it's the Friday Morning Club, designed by architects Allison and Allison, built in 1923. The Friday Morning Club was founded by the abolitionist and suffragist Caroline Severance in 1891. She was a good friend of Susan B. Anthony and this was the club's headquarters, a place for self-improvement and study of the arts, literature and culture, and the political and social advancement of women. William Butler Yeats gave a reading here once, and then it turned into the Variety Arts Center. And down the street it's the new Grammy Museum. The rest is glass. And no one was around. ~ Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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