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Identifier	post_00119
Title	Parkway System near Civic Center, Los Angeles, California
Creator	unknown
Date Published	circa 1945
Subject (Topic)	Express highways--California--Los Angeles; Public buildings--California--Los Angeles; City Halls--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 ; 9 x 14 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	Longshaw Card Co.
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, Calif.
Language	eng
Description	Civic Center including old Hall of Records, City Hall, Hall of Justice, and Federal Building; early view of freeways empty of automobiles; some automobiles on side street behind freeways; city buildings; grass; streetlights.
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, part of United States Highway 101, runs northwest out of downtown LA, past Hollywood, and into the San Fernando Valley, where it becomes the Ventura Freeway. California Route 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:"Fascinating curves and ramps of part of the 600 miles of parkways, locally called 'freeways,' to be built in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. The four lanes each way speed three times the traffic with much less accident risk."
Publisher's Identifier	Series number: LS-35
Contributors	H.S. Crocker Co., Inc., San Francisco 1, Calif.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Source	Werner Von Boltenstern Postcard Collection