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February 26, 2015

Demolition of writer's former home has Los Angeles re-examining its history

  • The destruction of Ray Bradbury's home surprised some people because the guy who knocked it down was one of the city's most prominent architects, Thom Mayne.
  • By JOHN ROGERS
    Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — It was the house where Ray Bradbury wrote “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” and when the bulldozer came to knock it down literary scholars and preservationists were aghast.



    ‘Maybe I’m naive, but it’s really been a bummer.’

    --Thom Mayne




     
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