{"id":669,"date":"2010-12-05T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T12:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2010-12-05T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T12:09:14","slug":"fullerton-hollywood-a-noteworthy-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/12\/05\/fullerton-hollywood-a-noteworthy-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Fullerton &#038; Hollywood: A Noteworthy Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>What do\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/fox-fullerton\/#more-86\" target=\"_blank\"> Fullerton&#8217;s Fox <\/a>and Grauman&#8217;s Chinese have in common? Beyond the obvious link of being 20&#8217;s era theatres, each was designed by the gentleman pictured below.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Raymond-Kennedy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-670\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Raymond Kennedy\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Raymond-Kennedy-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Raymond-Kennedy-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Raymond-Kennedy-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Raymond-Kennedy.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>A prominent architectural designer, Raymond M. Kennedy\u00a0played\u00a0 a major role in shaping the commercial landscape of\u00a0southern california\u00a0during the 1920&#8217;s. While employed by noted builder Meyer and Holler, Mr. Kennedy took\u00a0part in a host of high profile projects, ranging from lavish churches to ornate office buildings.\u00a0While his\u00a0most famous work was, obviously,\u00a0Grauman&#8217;s Chinese, Fullerton&#8217;s Fox Theatre (then known as\u00a0Chapman&#8217;s Alician Court) served as Mr. Kennedy&#8217;s first\u00a0venture in\u00a0to theatre design and the testing ground for many of the ideas he would later incorporate in to Grauman&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>After\u00a0leaving Meyer and Holler, following the company&#8217;s depression era collapse, Mr. Kennedy divided his time between teaching at the University of Southern California and being a stage designer for several major film studios; briefly departing for Washington D.C. to take part in the design of the Pentagon. Raymond Kennedy wrapped up\u00a0his illustrious career designing municipal buildings, for two leading California based architectural firms, retiring in 1960, at the age of 69.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do\u00a0 Fullerton&#8217;s Fox and Grauman&#8217;s Chinese have in common? Beyond the obvious link of being 20&#8217;s era theatres, each was designed by the gentleman pictured below. . \u00a0 A prominent architectural designer, Raymond M. Kennedy\u00a0played\u00a0 a major role in shaping the commercial landscape of\u00a0southern california\u00a0during the 1920&#8217;s. While employed by noted builder Meyer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}