After a long struggle, the former Hanna-Barbera Studios buildings in the Cahuenga ... to achieve Los Angeles city landmark status in 1997, despite the efforts of studio co-founder Joe Barbera ...

another residents group. The Hanna-Barbera structures do not have historic status that could preclude their immediate destruction. In 1997, the city Cultural Heritage Commission rejected cultural ...

which were denied historic landmark status in 1997. It was at the studio that Bill Hanna and his partner Joe Barbera perfected "limited animation," which is far cheaper than the traditional kind.