Home Savings and Loan mosaic from expansion of the Encino branch with segment tags, laid out on the Sheets Studio floor, 1977. Courtesy of Brian Worley.
Hello again! After wonderful and encouraging events last month in San Francisco and this month at the Columbia University Seminar on The City, I am happy to report that I have serious interest from a few publishers, as well as some conversations ongoing with museums about an exhibition.
A history of the collaboration between the Millard Sheets Studio and Home Savings and Loan, studded more than one hundred color images and beautifully designed, is on its way!
My target publication date is Fall 2017, in time for your holiday purchases. What that means is, between now and July 1, I will be gathering the very best images–archival or taken yesterday–for every building, angle, process, or detail I would like to include. I will also be revising what I have written with the goal of entering production this fall.
If you have places I should speak, or media outlets I should alert, let me know — I can add them to my planning list. But, for now, think if you have an image you haven’t seen on the blog, or that might not be in the Millard Sheets, Denis O’Connor, or Home Savings archives. I would love to know about it, and if we can create a high-resolution digital scan and include it, I will credit you as my source in the final publication.
Please be in touch, and I will provide an update once the images are assembled and the text is honed.
hi Adam, Glad to see you are getting close to completing your book. I sent you many images in the past hope you still have them. I also have a Home Savings shield that I remember Tony told me it was designed by Sheets. I will send you a picture. Its been in my attic and it time I take it down. I posted a link to your blog in the Home Savings Facebook site. Hopefully you will get some more images.
Teresa Fernandez
Thanks! I think I still have the images from before — remind me what they were of?
Contact Pasadena Star-News/Walt Mancini for photos of the new installation of the Pasadena Home Savings mural at Pasadena City College. They probably also have archival photos of the original installation in the bank.