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Title: Crossroads of the World
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1977
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Robert V. Derrah designed the 1936 Crossroads of the World (6671 Sunset Boulevard) as a Streamline Moderne programmatic office complex, which looked like a ship whose prow was topped with a tall, open tower and lighted globe. In 1974 the complex was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 134.
The globe atop the Crossroads of the World tower in Hollywood.
Type: image
Format: 1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier: 00165003
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_122_f5_s1
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/137036
Subject: Crossroads of the World (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Art deco (architecture)
Commercial buildings
Central business districts
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
National Register of Historic Places
Flags
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Derrah, Robert V
Time Period: 1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
Source: Hankey, Roy.

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