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Title
Automobile Club of Southern California, corner view
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1930
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
The Automobile Club of Southern California, one of the nation's first motor clubs dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws, and improvement of overall driving conditions, was founded on December 13, 1900 in Los Angeles. The Auto Club was responsible for producing state road maps, as well as posting thousands of porcelain-to-steel traffic signs throughout the state to create a uniform signing system - which it continued to do until the task was taken over by the State of California in the mid-1950s. The building pictured here originally served as the Auto Club's main office. It was built between 1922-1923 by architects, Sumner P. Hunt, Silas R. Burns, and Roland E. Coate in the Spanish Colornial Revival style. Today, this beautiful building serves as the Los Angeles district office, but the administrative offices are now located in Costa Mesa.
Exterior view of the Automobile Club of Southern California, located at 2601 S. Figueroa St. Three cars traveling southbound can be seen on the left, waiting at the intersection; Adams Blvd is visible on the right. Two men stand at the corner, near to the flagpole.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;18 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00075012
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Organizations-Automobile Club of Southern California.
CARL0000078903
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110982
Subject
Automobile Club of Southern California
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences
Traffic signs and signals--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--Societies, etc
Hunt, Sumner P
Burns, Silas Reese
Coate, Roland E
Source
Slade, Milton.

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