The show started on the sidewalk : oral history transcript / S. Charles Lee, interview conducted by Martha Valentine, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

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The show started on the sidewalk : oral history transcript / S. Charles Lee, interview conducted by Martha Valentine, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

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Lee discusses his education at the Armour Institute of Technology and the Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles in the 1920s; subdivisions, modernism, commissions for houses and duplexes; his role as theater architect for Fox Film Corporation, focusing on numerous Fox theaters; other architectural projects such as hotels, subdivisions, his home, and a venture with Hughes Aircraft; also mentioned are his activities with the Braille Institute for the Blind and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Eye Clinic.

[iii], xi, 101 p. ; 29 cm.

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Valentine, Martha

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Art Institute of Chicago.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program

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Fox Wilshire Theatre.

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Lee, Simeon Charles, 1899-1990

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American architect. From the description of The show started on the sidewalk : oral history transcript / S. Charles Lee, interview conducted by Martha Valentine, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214688223 ...

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

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American distribution and production corporation of motion pictures. From the description of Pressbooks, 1977-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122391955 American film producing and distributing corporation formed by the merger of two companies in the early half of the century. In 1915 William Fox began the Fox Film Corporation; and in 1925, he bought controlling interest in the then largest theater in the world, the Roxy Theater of New York, N.Y. The Roxy boasted a seati...

Hughes Aircraft Company

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Braille Institute For The Blind.

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Armour Institute of Technology

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The Armour Institute (1893-1940) was a Chicago educational institution committed to providing students of all backgrounds with technological preparation for work in industry. Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus of Plymouth Church on the South Side of Chicago was the inspiration for its founding and its first president. Funding came from meat packer Philip Danforth Armour, also benefactor of the Armour Mission, which taught manual training classes. The Armour Institute offered courses in engineering, arc...