Esoteric Survey

It was a good clay weekend...Tom McMillin, Jade Snow Wong and Philip Cornelius
Then there's this Harrison McIntosh
The domestics...Angelo Testa textiles and a pepper mill

La Gardo Tackett for Schmid

Richard Neutra office building (1958) for Dr. George D. Lavers, Tulare, CA Source: Neutra. Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht, Peter Gössel
Sadness
Cropped and slightly adjusted 1958 photo. 
The walkway supports were covered up and the rest was amputated. Don't get me started on the yellow stucco.
Around the side. Nice louvers.  FYI- The bars and chair are not VKG.
The only thing more depressing than the state of the building is that it might be a parking lot soon... 
The Tulare Regional Medical Center is located just across the street from the Lavers building. An EIR prepared for the expansion of the facility claims the Neutra building is not a historic resource. The plan showing a parking lot where the building now sits can be seen here. The Lavers building is located at 591 E Merritt Ave, Tulare, CA

1100 California Ave., Bakersfield, CA (c. 1961)
Wally Beardsley - Insurance · Bonds ashtray-- found in San Diego. I just had to take a detour to Bakersfield to check on this place.
At some point the patterned brick screen was extended across the entire front of the building.
Perhaps this was done to match the bars on the front entryway? It now serves as a "high volume" drug testing facility for law enforcement and prisons. 
I wasn't able to dig up much about the building, except that in 1961 it was Bakersfield's "Newest and Modern Office Building"  Update: The building is by Whitney Biggar (Thanks David!) Source: Bakersfield Californian, February 18, 1961

It was just an okay weekend.
Jack Boyd belt buckle

Tackett / KF

Bakersfield Built: Architecture in the 1930s Exhibition, Symposium and TourFriday, October 24th and Saturday, October 25th, 2014 This fall, Bakersfield's leading academic and cultural institutions are coming together to celebrate an overlooked aspect of the city's legacy: its architectural heritage. 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of John Steinbeck's 1939 classic, "The Grapes of Wrath." As part of that celebration, "Bakersfield Built: Architecture of the 1930s" will mount the first exhibition, symposium, and architecture tour of its kind in Bakersfield.The cornerstone of the project is an exhibition of architectural drawings, photographs and other archival materials about Bakersfield architecture during the 1930s. The exhibit will be augmented by a symposium on Saturday, October 25th featuring SAH/SCC Members, Sian Winship, Barbara Lamprecht and Ken Breisch.That same afternoon, symposium participants will be invited to visit the fines…