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Title
Linda Vista Shopping Center
Creator
Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor
Smith, Whitney Roland, 1911-, Architect
Giberson, Earl F, Architect
Better Homes and Gardens
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1944]
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Views of the Linda Vista Shopping Center. Also includes three exterior views of Fire Station No. 23.
The Linda Vista Shopping Center is the oldest such complex in San Diego. Black and white prints were accompanied by a note from Walter Adams at Better Homes and Gardens about the return/use of prints (housed in box 202 folder 12). Negatives previously rehoused. Original envelope dated March 1945, however publication reveals it was taken earlier.
"'Grass on Main Street' Becomes a Reality," Architectural Forum, September 1944, 81–93, 178. Whitney R. Smith, "No Cars on Main Street," Better Homes and Gardens 23, no. 5, January 1945, 20–21, 67–69. "These Towns Left Horse and Buggy Days Behind," House Beautiful 88, August 1946, 40–41.
Type
Image
Extent
Number of items: 47 ; Black-and-white negatives (34) ; Black-and-white prints (13)
Identifier
photCL MLP 1118.1
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/9648
Language
English
Subject
Commercial buildings--Photographs
Fire stations--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Signs and signboards--Photographs
Place
San Diego, Calif.
Source
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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