LABC Presents: 100 Years of the Automobile Club of Southern California's Headquarters
Wed, Sep 27
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2023, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: In 1900, ten Los Angeles-area businessmen founded the Automobile Club of Southern California to improve roads, propose traffic laws, and improve overall driving conditions.
As the club grew, they sent teams of cartographers to survey roads, create maps, and install a uniform system of signs, posting thousands of porcelain-on-steel traffic signs throughout the state (which they continued to do until the State of California took over the task in the mid-1950s). They started selling insurance, too.
Eventually, they commissioned a headquarters on the corner of Figueroa St. and Adams Blvd. Designed by architects Sumner P. Hunt and Silas R. Burns in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style, the building was completed in 1923 and still houses parts of the Auto Club today. This year, the building celebrates its centennial, and Morgan Yates will share its history with the LABC.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Morgan Yates is the corporate…