Identifier	post_00053
Title	City Hall, Los Angeles, California.
Creator	unknown
Date Published	circa 1950
Subject (Topic)	City halls--California--Los Angeles; Public buildings--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 ; 14 x 9 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/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher	H.S. Crocker Co., Inc.
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, Calif.
Language	eng
Description	City Hall building; street lined with parked automobiles; streetlights; flags on flagpoles; trees and shrubbery.
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 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.
Additional Printed Matter	On back:"The City Hall, the tallest building in Los Angeles, costing 9 1/2 million dollars, forms the nucleus for the beautiful Civic Center of Los Angeles."
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: LA-1020
Contributors	Lowman, Hubert A.; Distributed by Souvenir Color Card Co.
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection