Resource Report

Historic Resource Summary

Names
Windy's New & Used Cars (Primary)
Windy's New & Used Cars (Historic)
935 W FLORENCE AVE (Alternative)
Important Dates
1959-01-01 (Built Date)
Images
Windy's New & Used Cars - PHOTO
Resource Types
Object
Architect
Builder
Owner

Location Information

Addresses
935 W FLORENCE AVE Primary
937 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
941 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
943 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
945 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
947 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
951 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
939 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
949 W FLORENCE AVE Alternative
Location Description
No descriptions recorded
Parking lot of 935 W FLORENCE AVE
Administrative Areas
South Los Angeles Community Plan Area (Community Plan Area)
Los Angeles City Council District 8 (Council District)
HARVARD PARK NEIGHBORHOOD (Neighborhood)

Resource Description

Classification
Type: Commercial-Sign, Pylon, Pole, Stantion   Use: Historic     Style: Googie    
Type: California OHP Resource Attribute - HP39. Other          
Features
No components recorded

Narrative Description

No description available
Alterations
Appears to be unaltered

Resource Significance

Evaluation Details

Date Evaluated
2011-09-05
Context/Theme
Commercial Development, 1850-1980
Commercial Signs, 1906-1980
Pylons, Poles, Stantions, and Billboards, 1920-1980
Commercial - Sign
Freestanding Pole
Eligibility Standards
  • Often serves to advertise and visually link the building and parking lot to street frontage
  • Evokes commercial ethos of its period through forms, typography, materials, and/or imagery
  • Originally constructed as freestanding support for advertisements to be read from a distance by moving audiences
  • Evokes iconic cultural associations with period- or regionally specific commercial establishments, personae, or multiple-family residential properties, and/or is an excellent example of an architectural style or promotional technique from its period
  • Usually freestanding steel poles, rectilinear stucco-faced pylons, towers, or stantions that extend vertically, separate from and usually (especially in post-World War II years) rising to a height above that of the building it advertises
  • Pylons, poles, stantions, or towers support metal or plastic boxes (in varying dimensions and shapes), cutouts, spheres, statuary, or other three-dimensional forms
  • Retains most of the essential character-defining features of its type
  • Often bear signs on both sides and may include other intersecting shapes and forms that jut from the primary structure at different angles
  • May support a combination of backlit plastic, incandescent bulbs, neon tubing, and/or fluorescent tubing
  • May exemplify design features of sans-serif modernism; scripted and slanted typefaces of post-World War II period; askew, modernist or “Googie” styled forms and features; thematic or exotic imagery; or bubble-type, psychedelic
  • May exemplify design features of Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, exaggeratedly modernist/“Googie,” or thematic architectural styles—streamlines, angularity, offset composition of intersecting forms, fanciful or programmatic pictorial illustrations
    • Integrity Aspects
    Design
    Setting
    Materials
    Workmanship
    Feeling
    Association
    Location
    Retains sufficient integrity to convey significance
    California Historic Resources Status Codes (explanation of codes)
    3CS
    3S
    5S3
    Significance Statement
    Excellent, intact example of a commercial sign with elements of Googie design. Exhibits high quality of design and iconic features of the type from this era.
    Periods of Significance
    From: 1959-01-01

    External References

    External System References

    SurveyLA ID: a66da94c-19fe-4ebd-bccc-e4445dc9d10e
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1106
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1107
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1108
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1109
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1109
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1110
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1112
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1107
    Property Identification Number: 102B197 1111
    House ID: 448857

    Related Resources

    Related Historic Resources

    None

    Related Historic Districts

    None

    Related Activities

    SurveyLA - South Los Angeles Survey (was assessed in / assessed)

    Related Historic Events

    None

    Related People/Organizations

    Architectural Resources Group (Surveying Firm, was surveyed by / surveyed)

    Related Information Resources

    Images
    Documents
    SurveyLA: South Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey Report (Document/Text, is referred to in / refers to)

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