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Description
Photograph. "Landmark to make way for parking lot -- Wanted: Home for ghosts of L.A.'s 1st skyscraper -- It's just possibel Civic Center may be invaded by a flock of ghosts from the city's colorful past. -- Los Angeles' first skyscraper -- the now lonely and abandoned Amestoy Building at Maina nd Market streets across from City Hall, is about to be torn down. -- These must be dreadful times of change for the memories crowded into the musty three-story structure built 70 years ago by Basque sheep herfer Domingo Amestoy. -- Destruction lies poised as the Board of Public Works prepares this wek to open bids for razing of the building to make way for the city's dire need -- more"... -- Examiner clipping by Sid Bernstein attached to verso, dated 9 June 1958.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
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