https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9e310491-65be-4b20-b73d-84b24da14fd1 Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join This silent footage shows the construction of various branches of Home Savings and Loan and the related Ahmanson Bank buildings. Starting in 1955, bank founder Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson commissioned artist and architectural designer Millard Sheets to design over 100 buildings throughout California, including several in Los Angeles, known for their unique architectural style (New Formalist) and integrated art elements, especially large-scale mosaics. Footage includes the Home Savings and Loan branch in Pasadena (2:00) at 860 East Colorado Boulevard at Lake Avenue, which opened in 1963. At (4:00) the Home Savings building located at 2121 Avenue of the Stars in Century City is shown, now known as Fox Plaza. At (4:15) the Santa Ana branch on 1300 North Main Street, which opened in 1966, is shown. At (6:07) the Santa Monica branch on 2600 Wilshire Blvd. is shown, with its iconic mural (removed in 2019). At (7:09) the Wilshire Colonnade, originally known as the Ahmanson Center Building, which opened in 1970 is shown. At (9:21) the Ahmanson Bank building from 1959, also on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. At (9:52) the Home Savings and Loan branch in Beverly Hills is shown. What appears to be the Pasadena branch is shown at (10:09) and an unidentified branch at (11:17). Millard Owen Sheets was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer. He was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists and helped define the art movement. Many of his large-scale building-mounted mosaics from the mid-20th century are still extant in Southern California. His paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery in Washington D.C.; and the Los Angeles County Museum. Starting in the late 1950s, Sheets was commissioned by Howard F. Ahmanson to design Home Savings Bank branches throughout Southern California that would serve as community landmarks by expressing "community values" or presenting "a celebratory version of the community history." To accomplish this goal, Sheets designed his branch buildings with exterior façades containing large mosaic works depicting local heritage. The Ahmanson commissions multiplied to include more than 80 branch buildings after the initial 1955 commission. Sheets resigned his teaching position at Scripps College and established the Sheets Studio in Claremont, California. Website: www.PeriscopeFilm.com Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoKMCTHKkcw Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:23:49 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9e310491-65be-4b20-b73d-84b24da14fd1 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.