A crane is hoisting a girder as construction of the Statler Center continues. A banner on the girders states "Steel Erected by Consolidated Western Steel Corporation". A sign on the construction fence advertises offices and shops for lease. Holabird, Root & Burgee of Chicago were the architects for the Statler Center which later became The Omni and then The Wilshire Grand Hotel. Photo dated: Dec. 25, 1950.
Statler Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hotels--California--Los Angeles Steel I-beams Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Building construction--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Figueroa Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Consolidated Western Steel Corporation Holabird, Root & Burgee
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