Security Trust and Savings

Historic site in Los Angeles, California

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Security Trust and Savings, also known as Security Pacific Bank, is a highrise office building in Hollywood, California and built in 1921. The building was designed by the father and son design team of John and Donald Parkinson,^[1] who also designed some of the city's major landmarks, including Los Angeles City Hall and Bullocks Wilshire.

In 1982 the building was nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places,^[1] although it ultimately was not listed. In 1987 the building was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.^[2]

In 2020, the building was bought for $53 million by Onni Group, who plan to preserve it while redeveloping an adjoining property.^[3]

In popular culture

This building is widely believed to be the inspiration for the Cahuenga Building, a fictional building that housed the office of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective featured in a number of Raymond Chandler's stories. Additionally, The Brasher Doubloon, a film adaption of Chandler's The High Window, features this building as that location.^[4] The intersection outside this building (Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Boulevard) is named Raymond Chandler Square as a tribute to the belief that Phillip Marlowe's office was located here.^[5]

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Greater Hollywood

Districts and
neighborhoods

• Colegrove
• East Hollywood
• Hollywood
  • Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District
  • Yucca Corridor
• Hollywood Hills
  • Beachwood Canyon
  • Cahuenga Pass
  • Hollywood Dell
  • Hollywood Heights
  • Laurel Canyon
  • Nichols Canyon
  • Outpost Estates
  • Whitley Heights
  • Yamashiro Historic District
• Little Armenia
• Melrose District
• Melrose Hill
• Spaulding Square
• Thai Town
• Virgil Village

Points of interest

Cemeteries	Forest Lawn Hollywood Forever Mount Sinai
Hospitals	Children's Hospital Hollywood Presbyterian Kaiser Sunset
Hotels	Chateau Marmont Hollywood Knickerbocker Hollywood Melrose Hollywood Plaza Hollywood Roosevelt
Museums	Fire Department Museum and Memorial Guinness World Records Hollywood Hollywood Bowl Hollywood Heritage Hollywood Wax Japan House Madame Tussauds Hollywood Museum of Death Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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Religious	Blessed Sacrament Church Cathedral of Saint Vladimir Enichizan Myohoji Temple First Baptist Church First Presbyterian Church Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist Hollywood Cross Hollywood United Methodist Church Holy Transfiguration Cаthedral Self Realization Fellowship Temple Temple Israel
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Restaurants	Mel's Drive-In Musso & Frank Pig 'n Whistle Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles
Schools	Entertainment AFI Conservatory American Academy of Dramatic Arts American Musical and Dramatic Academy Emerson College Hollywood Gnomon School of Visual Effects Los Angeles Film School Los Angeles Recording School Musicians Institute Stella Adler Studio of Acting Other Braille Institute of America Helen Bernstein High Hollywood High Immaculate Heart Los Angeles City College Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School West Coast University
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Walks of fame	Adult Walk of Fame Chinese Theater hand and footprints Hollywood Walk of Fame Hollywood's RockWall
Other buildings	American Legion Post 43 Bricker Broadway Hollywood Cahuenga Branch Library Capitol Records Crossroads of the World Equitable Guaranty Hollywood & Western Hollywood Athletic Club Hollywood First National Hollywood Masonic Temple Hollywood Post Office Hollywood Studio Club John C. Fremont Branch Library Ovation Hollywood Security Trust and Savings Taft
Other sites	Amoeba Music Contemporary Exhibitions Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study Public Art

Transportation

Metro	B Line K Line Northern Extension Vermont Transit Corridor
Streets	East-west Fountain Franklin Hollywood Melrose Mulholland Santa Monica Sunset North-south Cahuenga Gower Highland La Brea Normandie Vermont Vine Western Wilcox Intersections Gower Gulch Hollywood and Vine Squares Armenian Genocide Memorial Berry Gordy Bob Hope Carmen Miranda Ian Campbell Morris Kight Raymond Chandler Theo Wilson
Other	California State Route 2 FlyAway (discontinued) Hollywood Bowl Shuttles Hollywood Freeway

Neighboring cities
and communities

• Beverly Hills
• Fairfax
• Hancock Park
• Los Feliz
• North Hollywood
• Silver Lake
• Studio City
• Universal City
• West Hollywood

Regions

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