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Title
Crocker Bank skyscraper
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1982
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
The Los Angeles Office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill designed the the Crocker Bank complex in the late 1970s. When Wells Fargo Bank and Crocker Bank merged in February, 1986, the Crocker Tower was renamed the Wells Fargo Tower.
Photograph caption reads: "Crocker's high-rise towers bound two sides of its downtown block and focus on a central restaurant atrium which has stores lining Hope St." Photograph dated November 15, 1982.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00083568
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b061_f3_i22
CARL0002878558
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25680
Subject
Crocker Bank
Crocker Tower (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bank buildings--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Building construction--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Central business districts--California--Los Angeles
Skyscrapers--California--Los Angeles
Hope Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Aerial views
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

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