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City Hall and Civic Center from the Air, Los Angeles, Calif.
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City Hall and Civic Center from the Air, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Identifier
post_00034
Title
City
Hall
and
Civic
Center
from the
Air
,
Los
Angeles
,
Calif
.
Creator
unknown
Date Published
circa
1934
Subject (Topic)
City
halls--California--Los
Angeles
;
Public
buildings--California--Los
Angeles
;
Civic
centers--California--Los
Angeles
Subject (Name)
Los
Angeles
City
Hall
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
Subject (Place)
Downtown
Los
Angeles
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
Pacific
Novelty
Co
.
Place of Publication
San
Francisco
&
Los
Angeles
Language
eng
Description
Aerial
view
of the
third
and
current
City
Hall
rising
above
surrounding
buildings
;
across
from
City
Hall
is
the
old
Hall
of
Records
; to the
left
of that
is
the
Hall
of
Justice
.
Historical Background
The
original
City
Hall
building
was
located
on
Spring
Street
in an
adobe
structure
that also
housed
the
City
Jail
. A
second
City
Hall
was
built
on
Broadway
between
Second
and
Third
streets
in
1888
. The
third
and
current
City
Hall
, with its
obelisk
tower
,
is
bounded
by
Temple
,
Main
,
First
, and
Spring
, and was
completed
in
1928
. At the
time
, the
city
had a
height
restriction
of
12
stories
,
making
the
new
454
foot
high
,
32-story
building
the
tallest
in the
city
. At the
peak
is
an
airplane
beacon
named
in
honor
of
Lindbergh
. The
building
material
included
sand
from
every
county
in
California
and
water
from
all
21
California
Missions
. The
Civic
Center
is
bounded
by
Figueroa
,
San
Pedro
,
First
, and the
Hollywood
Freeway
.
One
of the
largest
government
complexes
in the
world
,
it
includes
the
Federal
Building
, the
Federal
Post
office
,
City
Hall
,
County
Hall
of
Justice
,
County
Hall
of
Records
, the
Department
of
Water
and
Power
, the
Music
Center
Complex
, and
County
Courts
.
Although
plans
for the
Civic
Center
were
underway
as
early
as
1905
,
it
wasn't
completed
until
the
1950s
.
Publisher's Identifier
Series number: 379
Additional Notes
Approximate
date
from
postmark
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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