On Thanksgiving Day, while my toddler napped, my father and I drove over the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge to take a look at the former Home Savings (and now, former Petco) at the center of the business strip on Orange Avenue in Coronado. When I first heard that a former Home Savings had become a Petco, I couldn’t figure out how […]
At long last, I have been able to update, add to, revise, refine, and improve this Definitive List. (Newest update in August 2018 added some early projects, including more information about airfields and church commissions.) I have found 159 Sheets Studio projects intended for public places other than Home Savings locations, and 168 Home Savings locations with Sheets Studio artwork. They […]
Hello again! As we reach the end of 2014, I wanted to give you an update about all that is happening behind the scenes–as well as to share some thoughts about those Home Savings branches constructed outside California, and the effort to add them to the story. It has been a productive fall! With support from Howard Ahmanson Jr. and the […]
For decades after its acquisition by Howard Ahmanson in 1947,Home Savings and Loan had its headquarters along Wilshire Boulevard — first in Beverly Hills, and then in Los Angeles, and finally, in 1985, to a campus in Irwindale. When Home Savings was purchased in 1998, the headquarters was transferred to Washington Mutual. Now they are two of the three buildings in […]
