Fritz Burns Papers, 1939-1973 CSLA.2
- Processed by:
- Janet Evander
- Date Completed:
- 1997
- Encoded by:
- Clay Stalls
1899 | Born Fritz Bernard Burns, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
1916-1932 | Salesman, sales manager, and executive vice president, Dickinson Gillespie Corporation. Responsible for the development of Palisades del Rey, a beachfront area of Los Angeles County. |
1924 | Marries Lucille Robinson, whom he divorced in 1927. The couple has one son, Fritz Patrick Burns (1925-1980). |
1937-1944 | General partner with F. W. Marlow in Marlow-Burns Development Company, which develops Windsor Hills, Toluca Wood, Westchester, and parts of West Los Angeles. |
1940 | Marries Gladys Carson Scheller (1897-1985). |
1945 | With Henry J. Kaiser forms Kaiser Community Homes. Best known development is Panorama City. Also the two partners develop properties in Hawaii. |
1955 | Burns receives "Man of Achievement" award from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. |
1960-1979 | CEO, Fritz B. Burns and Associates. Partner in development of hotels and shopping centers in the Los Angeles area. |
1979 | Death of Fritz B. Burns. |
1899 | Born Fritz Bernard Burns, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
1916-1932 | Salesman, sales manager, and executive vice president, Dickinson & Gillespie Corporation. Responsible for the development of Palisades del Rey, a beachfront area of Los Angeles County. |
1924 | Marries Lucille Robinson, whom he divorced in 1927. The couple has one son, Fritz Patrick Burns (1925-1980). |
1937-1944 | General partner with F. W. Marlow in Marlow-Burns Development Company, which develops Windsor Hills, Toluca Wood, Westchester, and parts of West Los Angeles. |
1940 | Marries Gladys Carson Scheller (1897-1985). |
1945 | With Henry J. Kaiser forms Kaiser Community Homes. Best known development is Panorama City. Also the two partners develop properties in Hawaii. |
1955 | Burns receives "Man of Achievement" award from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. |
1960-1979 | CEO, Fritz B. Burns and Associates. Partner in development of hotels and shopping centers in the Los Angeles area. |
1979 | Death of Fritz B. Burns. |
- Series One: Business Files, 1939-1985
- Series Two: Biographical Files, 1922-1982
- Series Three: Scrapbooks and Clippings, 1939-1966
- Series Four: Photographs, 1922-probably 1973
- Series Five: Awards and Honors, 1918-1979
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series 1: Business Files 1939-1985
Marlow-Burns Development Co. -- Partnership Agreement 1939-1984
Marlow-Burns Development Co. -- General File 1956 1939-1976
Marlow-Burns Development Co. -- General File 1946-1955 1946-1960
Marlow-Burns Development Co. -- General File 1946-1955 1946-1960
Murphy-Baker-Burns -- MAP File, Lots 1-11, Tract 12691. South Pasadena 1951
Burns-Baker -- Lots 29-52, Inclusive Tract 12961, Raymond Hill 1951-1953
Murphy-Burns-Baker Co-Partnership (Parkway-Fairoaks) Lots 1-11 Tract 1269 1951-1964
Marlow-Burns -- Business Properties 1951 1970 1974
Marlow-Burns Investment Co. Certificate of co-partnership 1953
Marlow-Burns Co. -- Management Agreements 1953-1958
Marlow-Burns -- Oil Lease 1953-1964
Marlow Co. 1953-1968
Marlow-Burns Co. -- Lyons Lease 1955-1956
Marlow-Burns Co. Community Lease 1955-1964
Marlow-Burns Development Co. -- Bowling Alley 1955-1966
Marlow-Burns Development Co. -- Cavalier Restaurant, 5912 West Manchester, Los Angeles 1955-1966
Marlow-Burns Company 1955-1967
Marlow-Burns Co. -- Union Oil (Arbor Vitae and Airport) 1955-1974
Marlow-Burns -- Oil (Centinela and La Tijera) 1957
Marlow, F. W. / Burns, Fritz B. (50% Individually) 1957-1958 1969
Marlow-Burns Co. -- Post Office Lease 1957-1959
Marlow-Burns -- 74th and La Tijera 1957-1969
Marlow-Burns Co. -- Lee-Skyways Motel 1957-1977
Marlow-Burns Company -- Corner Overhill and Slauson 1957-1977
Marlow-Burns -- Partial Division of Properties 1958-1960
Marlow Co. -- Trust S-11654 1959-1960
Marlow-Burns -- Pancake House, Manchester/La Tijera 1960
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- Von's Grocery Company 1960-1980
Marlow-Burns -- Clock Restaurant 1961
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- South Pasadena Shopping Center, Fair Oaks and State Street 1961-1966
Marlow-Burns Co. -- Bertram Property 1961-1968
MB -- Control Data Building #1 6060 West Manchester Blvd. 1961-1971
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- General Correspondence 1961-1981
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- Lease File, 1961-1963 1961-1985
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- Coin Operated Dry Cleaning Laundry 1962-1963
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- Thrifty Drug Lease 1962-1981
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- Heckle Lynn Restaurant 1962-1981
M/B -- 8600 La Tijera Office Building 1963
M-B Oil Drilling Sites Westchester 1965-1966
MB -- Wash Rack, Slauson and Overhil 1965-1966
M-B -- Control Data Lease Financing 1965 1968
M-B -- Control Data Building #2 1965-1968
M-B -- Freeway at La Tijera and 74th Street 1966-1970
Marlow-Burns -- Marlow (Memos to) 1966-1968
M-B -- Standard Oil, Line Well Agreement 1966-1967
MB -- New Slauson Freeway 1967
Murphy-Burns-Baker -- Standard Oil Lease 1970-1971 1981
Marlow-Burns -- Manchester and La Tijera 1974
Marlow-Burns -- Lease Income Reports 1976-1983
Marlow-Burns Company -- Slauson and Angelus Vista 1977
Series 2: Biographical Files 1922-1982
Burns, Fritz B. -- Biographies 1922-1978
Burns, Fritz B. -- Biographical Information 1943
Burns/Kaiser, et. al. Includes booklet, The Kaiser Story 1961-1975
FBB: Loyola-Marymount Board of Visitors 1977-1978
Fritz B. Burns clippings re his death 1979 1982
Series 3: Scrapbooks and Clippings 1939-1966
Photocopies: Windsor Hills. Includes copies of brochures, advertisements. Also copies of Marlow-Burns and Co. letters to renters, summary of building restrictions and costs; schedule of options; and floor plans 1939-1940
Photocopies: Copies of articles about Fritz Burns, Panorama City, Westchester, Public Housing, and the Post-War House 1943-1963
Scrapbook 1953
Scrapbook 1953
Scrapbook 1955
Scrapbook 1956-1959
Scrapbook, Fritz B. Burns Clippings 1960-1966
Series 4: Photographs 1922-1973
Dickinson Gillespie L.A.A.C. Banquet (Los Angeles Athletic Club?) 1922
Initial banquet, Los Angeles Football, Biltmore Hotel. 4 prints 1926
Board of Directors. National Association of Home Builders, Chicago 1943
Fritz Burns portraits. 8 color prints. Photographer: Curtis Studios undated
Fritz Burns, Art Linkletter, and Mrs. Ward George, winner of the "Kaiser Future" contest, on the "People Are Funny" program. At NBC Studios in Hollywood. Photographer: Woro Studio undated
Man in a car. Written on back of photo: "Pat-- Hot Dawg. Pop. " Circa 1923 -- More lights than a xmas tree -- note running board lights safeguards." 1923
F. Patrick Burns and two others in front of Panorama City helicopter 1954
Grand opening of Hawaiian Village in Waikiki. 2 prints. One print shows Henry Kaiser and Fritz Burns cutting a lei, the other shows Kaiser, Burns and three other people 1955
F. Patrick Burns portraits. 1 print and 1 proof sheet with 12 views. Photographer: Richard Fish circa 1955
"Henry J. Kaiser, Sr., celebrating his 73rd birthday doing 110 miles an hour in his hydroplane on the waters of Lake Tahoe, while famed Hawaiian entertainer, Alfred Apaka, serenades him on the ukulele" 1955
Announcement of plans to build a new Kaiser-Hilton hotel in Waikiki. L to R: Edgar Kaiser, Henry J. Kaiser, John W. Houser, Fritz B. Burns. 2 prints 1956
Molokai-Oahu outrigger canoe races 1956
L to R: F. Patrick Burns, Jackie Akeo, Gladys Burns, Muriel Tani, Fritz Burns. Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu 1957
Fritz Burns portraits. 2 prints 1957
Portrait of F. Patrick Burns. 2 prints 1960
7 prints of signing of loan papers for $15 million dollars between Equitable Assurance Society of the United States and the Hilton-Burns Hotels Company. Newspaper clipping. Shown in pictures: E.F. Schneider, John H. Russell, Fritz Burns, W. K. Skinner, Robert Thompson, Robert W. Brown, Granville Specks, Gregory R. Dillon, Maynard D. Piltz, Senator Vincent Esposito, David Pietsch, Edwin K. Hastings, Joseph Rawlinson, John Leon Collis, John Cline Mann 1961
Members of the Japan-Hawaii Trade Development Tour. 7 prints. Some of the photographs show the Tokyo Shibaura Electric 1961
Fritz Burns portraits. 11 prints 1962
Fritz Burns on a boat 1962
[Edwin K.] Hastings and [Mr.] Shirra 1962
Fritz and Gladys Burns. 2 prints and a slide 1962
Fritz and Gladys Burns 1962
National Guard "Armory Dedication." 4 prints 1962
3 prints: Seymour Mann (President San Fernando Valley Industrial Association), Fritz Burns, John Roberts (Director Los Angeles City Planning), Robert Fuller 1962
Fritz Burns with a Christmas display with reindeer. 3 prints 1962
Preview showing of the Airport-Marina Hotel (at Lincoln Boulevard and Manchester Avenue). 4 prints. Preview invitation and an announcement re Bernd Enck as Banquet and Catering Manager of the Hotel 1963
Loyola University President's Council Dinner. Fritz and Gladys Burns 1963
Istanbul Hilton. Fritz and Gladys Burns and others 1963
Fritz Burns and Conrad Hilton. Outside the Long House following Mr. Hilton's speech to the Hawaii Visitors Bureau 1963
Restaurant on outskirts of Rome 1963
John Joseph (Hilton), Jean Lane, Fritz Burns in Rotterdam 1963
Fritz Burns and others on a boat. 5 print 1963
Santa Clara Luncheon. Fritz Burns at podium 1963
Culver-Stockton College event. 4 prints 1963
Jim Townsell[?] birthday party, with Fritz Burns. 2 prints 1964
F. Patrick Burns and a woman 1964
Opening of Kahala Hilton. 4 prints 1964
F. Patrick Burns and others. 3 prints 1964
Fritz Burns receiving the "Citizen of the Year Award" from the Kiwanis Club of San Fernando, California 1964
F. Patrick Burns and two women 1965
Fritz Burns and two other men. Hilton Hawaiian Village 1966
Groundbreaking, Kona Hilton. 24 prints probably 1966
Portrait of Fritz Burns 1968
Fritz and Gladys Burns and others in Hawaii. 4 prints 1970
Fritz Burns and unidentified man 1972
Fritz and Gladys Burns receiving Americanism awards from the Americanism Educational League. 3 prints probably 1973
Unidentified family photograph undated
Parking structure opening, possibly Hilton Hawaiian Village. 2 prints undated
Fritz Burns with Henry J. Kaiser, looking at plans undated
Fritz Burns, Henry J. Kaiser, and five other men seated at a dining table undated
Henry J. Kaiser on stage at a microphone addressing an audience. Fritz Burns is sitting on the side of the stage undated
Fritz Burns, Henry J. Kaiser, and unidentified woman. 3 prints undated
Fritz Burns, Henry J. Kaiser, and others playing ball. 3 prints undated
Fritz Burns and Henry J. Kaiser seated next to each other; Fritz Burns and unidentified woman; Gladys Burns at a buffet table. 3 prints undated
Fritz Burns, Henry J. Kaiser, and "zany orchestra leader" Spike Jones fishing and sitting in front of a building. 8 prints undated
Fritz Burns and Henry J. Kaiser touring the Hawaiian Village Hotel. 21 prints undated
Henry J. Kaiser with model of [Hawaiian Village Hotel?]. 2 prints undated
Aerial view of [Oahu?] coast undated
Fritz and Gladys Burns, Patrick Burns, Henry Kaiser and others. 1 print and 1 proof sheet with 12 images undated
From left to right: W. K. Skinner, Edwin K. Hastings, Fritz Burns, Gregory Dillon. At Hilton Hawaiian Village undated
Fritz Burns at lei stand, Hilton Hawaiian Village undated
Fritz Burns and 6 other men undated
Fritz Burns and an unidentified man undated
Gladys Burns and an unidentified man in a yard. 2 prints undated
Fritz Burns and a group of men touring a building. 2 prints undated
Fritz Burns (wearing a lei) standing near ocean with a group of people undated
Travel photographs. 4 prints undated
Fritz Burns and Lloyd Mazzera undated
John W. Houser, Executive Vice President, and Conrad N. Hilton, President, Hilton Hotels International undated
F. Patrick Burns portrait. 2 prints undated
F. Patrick Burns portrait. 3 prints. Photographer: Curtis Studios undated
F. Patrick Burns looking at plans in front of hotel. Photographer: Bob Johnson (Honolulu) undated
F. Patrick Burns and others on a boat. Photographer: Werner Stoy (Honolulu) undated
F. Patrick Burns, a woman, Fritz and Gladys Burns on camels in front of pyramids. 2 prints undated
Fritz and Gladys Burns and another couple seated at a dining table and watching a fashion show undated
F. Patrick Burns and two other men in front of a map of the San Fernando Valley undated
Fritz Burns portrait undated
Fritz Burns portrait, seated at desk. Photographer: Woro Studio Photography undated
Fritz Burns portrait. 4 prints. Photographer: Curtis Studios undated
Fritz Burns portrait. 5 prints. Photographer: Bob Johnson undated
Fritz Burns portrait undated
Fritz Burns portrait. Photographer: Herbert Bruce Cross undated
Fritz Burns portraits. 4 prints. Photographer: Rothschild Photo undated
Fritz Burns portraits. 13 prints. Photographer: Bob Johnson undated
Fritz Burns, two men and a woman undated
Fritz Burns and Catholic Father undated
Series 5: Awards and Honors 1918-1979
Appointment. The President of the United States appoints Fritz B. Burns as Second Lieutenant of Infantry, the United States Army. Signed by the Adjutant General, F. P. Jacobs and the Assistant Secretary of War 1918
Gavel. "Fritz B. Burns[,] President 1942[,] Home Builders Institute" probably 1942
Distinguished Service Award. The National Association of Home Builders of the United States presents the award to "Fritz B. Burns[,] National President[,] 1943" 1947
Gavel. Fritz B. Burns, Chairman, Build America Better Council undated
City of Los Angeles resolution supporting the Building Contractors Association of California's honorary dinner for Fritz Burns 1952
Certificate of gratitude from National Association of Real Estate Boards to Fritz B. Burns 1955
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Resolution re Fritz B. Burns 1959
Assembly of the California Legislature re Fritz B. Burns 1959
Panorama City Chamber of Commerce. " 'The Spade of Progress' Presented to Fritz B. Burns Founder of Panorama City in appreciation of his "Spade Work" in developing the San Fernando Valley's Most Outstanding Community." 1959
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Loyola University. Laminated letter on back of frame (November 10, 1967) to Burns from Charles S. Casassa, S. J., President of Loyola University. Casassa accepts Burns' resignation from the Board of Regents of the University 1967
Citation for Outstanding Service. Americanism Educational League. Awarded to Fritz B. Burns 1964
Citation of Merit. The American Legion and the Los Angeles County Council. Presented to Fritz B. Burns 1966
Appointment. Ronald Reagan, Governor of the State of California, appoints Fritz B. Burns as a member of the Tourism and Visitor Services Commission 1967
Resolution. The City of Los Angeles posthumously "offers its deep appreciation and gratitude" to Fritz Burns 1979