{"id":108,"date":"2011-06-06T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-06-06T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T12:02:18","slug":"old-libbey-bowl-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Old Libbey Bowl Photos&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schafphoto.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0115712c3d78970c014e88f17927970d-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Schaf-schafphoto-2010-LIBBEYBOWL--4376\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0115712c3d78970c014e88f17927970d\" src=\"https:\/\/schafphoto.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0115712c3d78970c014e88f17927970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Schaf-schafphoto-2010-LIBBEYBOWL--4376\" \/><\/a> I had the pleasure of documenting Ojai&#39;s original Libbey Bowl in the Historic American Buildings Survey style a few weeks before its demolition in Summer 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The HABS-like archival prints were donated to the Ojai Museum and will serve as a reminder of the design and architecture of the first bowl in Libbey Park. These final images&#0160;capture a Nordhoff High School concert in the bowl, and details of the sun-dappled outdoor venue which was built between 1954 and 1957.<\/p>\n<p>The original bowl was conceived, initiated, planned and built by famed local architect Austen Pierpont, and noted architect Roy C. Wilson of Santa Paula was also associated with the project.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-size: small;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Schaf-LIBBYbowl-2010-Schafphoto-4433\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0115712c3d78970c014e88f17d9e970d\" src=\"https:\/\/schafphoto.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0115712c3d78970c014e88f17d9e970d-120wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Schaf-LIBBYbowl-2010-Schafphoto-4433\" \/>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<\/span>(click on photos to enlarge)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today in the LA Times, architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne&#0160;reviewed David Bury&#39;s new Libbey Park&#0160;Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/schafphoto.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0115712c3d78970c015432d1ac9a970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Schaf-schafphoto-2010-LIBBEYBOWL--4294\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0115712c3d78970c015432d1ac9a970c\" src=\"https:\/\/schafphoto.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0115712c3d78970c015432d1ac9a970c-120wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Schaf-schafphoto-2010-LIBBEYBOWL--4294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #80c0ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/06\/architecture-review-david-burys-new-libbey-bowl.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BURY LIBBEY BOWL - LA TIMES\">http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/06\/architecture-review-david-burys-new-libbey-bowl.html<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Libbey Bowl has been the backdrop for the appearances of world-reknowned musicians, performers and composers for over fifty years and this tradition will continue under its new arch. The Ojai Music Festival and other community events will now have a much more comfy venue to enjoy, and the termites and dry-rot are now all gone (but I hafta admit, a bit of the funkiness I loved is gone too).&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">&#0160;&#0160;Stephen Schafer is a HABS Photographer based in Ventura, California. &#0160;| &#0160;805-652-1000 &#0160;|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.habsphoto.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Habsphoto link to website\">&#0160;www.habsphoto.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These final images capture a Nordhoff High School concert in the bowl, and details of the sun-dappled outdoor venue which was built between 1954 and 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53,14,6,16],"tags":[27,240,237,22,105,50,236,238,239,241],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-photography","category-commercial-photography","category-documentary-photography","category-habs-haer-hals","category-photography","tag-architecture","tag-austen-pierpont","tag-christopher-hawthorne","tag-habs","tag-habs-like","tag-historic-american-buildings-survey","tag-libbey-bowl","tag-ojai","tag-ojai-music-festival","tag-roy-c-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}