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Identifier	post_00044
Title	Civic Center from Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California
Creator	unknown
Date Published	circa 1950
Subject (Topic)	Roads--California--Los Angeles; Express highways--California--Los Angeles; Civic centers--California--Los Angeles;
Subject (Name)	Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Subject (Place)	Los Angeles (Calif.); Civic center (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	Western Publishing & Novelty Co.
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, Calif
Language	eng
Description	Temple Street coming out of downtown; Civic Center in background; Hollywood Freeway; automobiles; street signs; streetlights; palm tree; traffic signs with directional arrows; billboard advertisement reads:"Stay on the Light Side"
Historical Background	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. The Hollywood Freeway, the 101, runs northwest out of downtown LA, past Hollywood, and into the San Fernando Valley, where it becomes the Ventura Freeway. The 170 continues northwest as the Hollywood Freeway. One of the early modern freeways, it was built between 1940 and 1948, initially as a possible toll road. Approximately 2,000 buildings were moved or destroyed to accommodate it, and protests were held because it cut through crowded neighborhoods. The Pacific Electric railway went down the center of the freeway at first, but highway builders, opposed to a rail system, put a stop to it.
Additional Printed Matter	"On back:"The Hollywood Freeway is one of a vast network of major highways engineered and designed to provide unobstructed driving to and from the Metropolitan Area of Los Angeles."
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: 3C-K393; Series number: L-34
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection