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Monterey Furniture refers to several furniture lines made from 1930 to the mid-1940s in California. Uniquely western, the line derived its character from Spanish and Dutch Colonial styles, California Mission architecture and furnishings, ranch furnishings, and cowboy accoutrements such as might be found in a barn (lariats and branding irons).
A 1970s hotel bathroom with characteristic color patterns associated with 1970s decor. Furniture of the 1970s refers to the style of furniture popular in the 1970s. Often, the furniture would be laid with bold fabric patterns and colors. [1] Bold designs and prints were also used profusely in other decor. [1]
Googie was an original architectural style which began in Southern California during the 1940s. Influenced by the coming of the Space Age , the Googie-themed architecture popularity was most notable from the mid-1940s to early 1970s, among motels , coffee houses and gas stations .
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California adobes measured 11 by 22 inches (280 by 560 mm), were 2 to 5 inches (51 to 127 mm) thick, and weighed 20 to 40 pounds (10 to 20 kg), making them convenient to carry and easy to handle during the construction process. [10] Actual skulls and crossbones were often used to mark the entrances to Spanish cemeteries (campos santos).
Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...
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The California mission project is an assignment done in California elementary schools, most often in the fourth grade, where students build dioramas of one of the 21 Spanish missions in California. While not being included in the California Common Core educational standards, the project was vastly popular and done throughout the state.