These units are known as “dingbat”-style apartments — and that’s not a slight, that’s what they’re called apparently because of the midcentury-esque visual motifs on their exterior.

“You’re hitting a couple birds with one stone,” Jesman says. Dingbat-style apartments in Los Angeles. [Photo: Downtowngal/Wiki Commons] He’s doing this renovation work on what are referred ...

When architect and writer Wendy Gilmartin was in her early 20s, she lived in West Hollywood in what’s known as a dingbat apartment. While she fondly remembered the lighting and wood floors ...

When Los Angeles County added more than 3 million residents between the 1940s and ‘60s, small developers and mom-and-pop property owners built dingbats to keep up with the demand. The two- or ...

"The dingbat typifies Los Angeles apartment building architecture at its worst," California historian Leonard Pitto once declared. But the simple, boxy apartment buildings have become as beloved ...

Thurman Grant and Joshua G. Stein decided to focus on one seriously forgotten (and often hated) structure: the dingbat. Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis ...