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Identifier	post_00113
Title	City Hall, Los Angeles
Creator	unknown
Date Published	circa 1955
Subject (Topic)	City Halls--California--Los Angeles; Public buildings--California--Los Angeles;
Subject (Name)	Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Subject (Place)	Los Angeles (Calif.)--Buildings & structures;
Type	image
Form/Genre	postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 14 x 9 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Publisher	Mitock & Sons
Place of Publication	7410 Greenbush Ave.,North Hollywood, Calif.
Language	eng
Description	City Hall building; automobiles parked on street; orange and white bus; trees and shrubbery; cartoon drawing of a man and woman on top of tower with dialogue bubble reading:"I can see our home town from here!"; front text reads:"Hi folks, here we are in Los Angeles, California"
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 2nd and 3rd 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.
Additional Printed Matter	On back:"A block long $10,000,000 edifice. 32 stories high and 17 acres of floor space. View from Observation Tower is breathtaking."
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: P24331
Additional Notes	Printed using the Plastichrome process by Colourpicture, Boston, Mass.
Contributors	Watson, George E.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Source	Werner Von Boltenstern Postcard Collection