1980s - Summer Daze Day Camp in Front of City Hall

A large group of people assembled on the front steps of City Hall for an unknown event commemorating the department of Parks and Recreation’s “Summer Daze” day camp. Notes on the back of the photo read: “City Hall circa late 1960’s early 1970’s ‘Summer Daze’.” Burbank’s City Hall was designed by architects William Allen and W. George Lutzi in a Streamline Moderne style, a type of Art Deco architecture (also sometimes described as “WPA Moderne”) that became popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Ground was broken on Olive Avenue, across the street from the existing city hall, in 1941 and construction was completed in 1943. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Burbank in Focus is guessing this is more likely the 1980s as some of the surrounding buildings were built after the 1960s and there is another image of the city hall definitely taken in the 80s in which the trees on the sidewalk were shorter than they are in this picture, so that would mean this picture was taken after that.

275 E Olive Ave, Burbank, CA 91502

Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Buildings--Civic
City Halls
Children
Day Camps
Parks and Recreation
1980s

8½ x 11 b&w print

Burbank Public Library, Burbank in Focus Office

cco01176

City Clerk's Office