According to Bloomberg, more than 700,000 dingbats went up all across LA County during that decade and through the 1960s, and tens of thousands of young families and couples moved in. Grant says ...

Currently, dingbats that have been better kept up, or renovated, are about on par with regular apartment rents--here's one in Santa Monica for $1950/mo, and another in West L.A. for $1850 (both 1 ...

Los Angeles’ “dingbat” apartments are a kitschy piece of the past. Shaped by the car culture, dingbats are going obsolete due to earthquake risk.

Boxy, dingbat-style apartments dot the San Fernando Valley, the understated architectural design evoking the region’s 1950s post-war boom. But now the Valley’s stock of dingbats is getting a ...

The dingbat, those rectangular houses built on stilts, are hideous to some but beautiful to others who want to preserve that post-war slice of L.A. life and architecture ...

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.