On Sunday May 15th I set up a booth at the 36th California Preservation Foundation Conference. This year the conference was held at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica.
For many years now we have been restoring and repairing stained and leaded glass as well as etched and beveled glass. He have developed quite a name for ourselves, and have directed our efforts more towards this area of stained glass work in recent years. Among the more notable projects we have worked on are :
The Doheny Mansion at Chester Place Campus
Mt St Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
St Joseph Chapel at Santa Teresita, Duarte , CA
2nd Church of Christ Scientist, Los Angeles, CA
The Hollyhock House, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
The Oviatt Building, Los Angeles, CA
Sinai Temple, West wood, CA
Korean Philadelphia Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, CA
Kerkoff Hall, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Royce Hall, UCLA, Westwood, CA
Hershey Hall, UCLA, Westwood, CSA
Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
New Bethel Baptist Church, Venice, CA
St.Albans Episcopal Church, Westwood, CA
Beit T’shuvah, Synagogue, Los Angeles, CA
Pilgrim Lutheran Church, Santa Monica, CA
Metropolitan Community Church, Los Angeles, CA
Westwood United Methodist Church, Westwood, CA
The Kabbalah.Center, Los Angeles, CA
Adat Shalom Synagogue, Los Angeles, CA
Motown Mansion, Bell Air, CA
George Washington Faulkner House, Santa Paula, CA.
In the beginning it was somewhat difficult getting restoration jobs. The feeling was. "You are not qualified if you haven't done anything notable".
This began changing once we established a record of notable projects. Before this however, it was a catch 22. Now people look at our track record and tell us that "you are the guys to use". The conference was very well attended in comparison with past conferences. There were in excess of 640 participants. Among the businesses that set up booths were architects, structural engineers, cultural historians, photographers, book sellers, contractors, and various state and federal preservation organizations.
For the first couple of days we were dissapoi9nted by the small number ofpeople that actually came into the display hall. By the end of the second day however, it became obvious that the businesses in the booths were exactly the people we had to network with. The result was, by the end of the confernces, we had a well established network. Most of us considered the show to be successful. The cloeing Gala was a lot of fun with a very nice banquet at the Annenberg Beach House on the beach in Santa Monica. The Beach House is located alongside the Marriane Davies Estate which was built by William Randolph Hearst.
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