Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thornton himself has few broad interests outside of work. "I can't stand useless leisure," he says. Thornton and Ash take vacations only in alternate years, but after a few days Thornton usually finds himself hankering to get back to work. Thornton lives in a Spanish-style ranch house in the fashionable Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, among such Hollywood names as Walt Disney, Bing Crosby and Claudette Colbert (he bought the house for $250,000 from Frank Sinatra's first wife Nancy). He and his tall, graceful wife Flora live there during the week but usually...
...Barn. Some were for large land projects such as the design of 5,000 acres of residential and commercial development at California's Bishop Ranch; others involved simply the architectural design for individual buildings. (One of his best is the new headquarters of the Hunt Foods Co. at nearby Fullerton.) Currently under construction on Wilshire Boulevard is the Pereira-designed Los Angeles County Art Museum, biggest to be built in the U.S. since Washington's National Gallery in 1941. This $8,000,000 structure, financed through the efforts of Department Store Magnate Edward W. Carter, will feature three soaring pavilions...
...find a 1,000-acre site for a new branch of the university, Pereira and his staff spent four months researching the nature of the university throughout history. Eventually he took the regents on a tour of 23 sites, ending with the one he liked best: Irvine Ranch. Both the regents and the Irvine Co. agreed. And Irvine, impressed by Pereira's design ideas decided to let him try his hand at a master plan for the entire ranch...
Staff headquarters for the Irvine project is Urbanus Square?a remodeled red barn in the midst of the ranch's rolling greenery. Inside, the white plaster walls are covered with brightly colored plans, maps and projections, and the huge floor is crowded with big tables holding clay models of structures, topographical miniatures, sketches of things to come. At one side is a conference and dining area, dominated by an ever-burning fireplace and well stocked with books, records and liquor. Pereira wheels out a couple of times a week to visit his planners in the red barn, calling them together...
...whooped at it and pleaded with it, prodded and battered it, until in furious frustration he leaped from his horse, bit the steer's lip like a bulldog, twisted its neck and brought it to the ground. Pickett's romantic technique was never very handy around the ranch, but it was sort of satisfying, and Pickett kept doing it at Wild West shows around the country. Word got around, others tried it, and a native American sport-bulldogging, or steer wrestling*-was born. When the rodeo finally caught on as a spectator sport in the 1930s, steer wrestling...