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Title
Los Angeles Civic Center
Creator
A Mike Roberts Color Production. Berkeley 2, Calif.
Description
Skyline of Civic Center with City Hall towering over the downtown area; old Hall of Records to right of City Hall; Hall of Justice to left with Federal Building behind Hall of Justice; 101 Freeway going west from downtown; automobiles; houses; streetlights.
Format Extent
1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Subject
Express highways--California--Los Angeles; City halls--California--Los Angeles; Civic Centers--California--Los Angeles
Note
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.
Collection
Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
Type Value
Geographic Location
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Language
eng
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