Located at 1243 Trenton Street, the Mediterranean/Churrigueresque structure was designed by Morgan, Walls & Clements and built in 1925. When the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express merged in 1931, it became the Herald-Express Building. After the Examiner merged with the Los Angeles Herald-Express in 1962, it was demolished sometime between the mid and late 1960s. Photograph caption dated November 5, 1931 reads, "Photo shows the Goodyear blimp 'Volunteer' soaring over The Evening Herald building today and picking up a bundle of Twentieth Birthday editions for delivery to civic officials at the city hall. The blimp dropped a rope weighed with a sandbag to the roof of the Evening Herald building. While the ship slowly passed over, two men running across the roof unhooked the sandbag and hooked on a bag containing the papers. The blimp then hauled the bag aboard, roared away and on reaching the city hall let the bag down on the end of the rope."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;37 x 22 cm. on board 37 x 24 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express (Firm) Herald-Express Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Newspaper buildings--California--Los Angeles Airships--California--Los Angeles Celebrations--California--Los Angeles Bunting (Cloth) Streets--California--Los Angeles Electric lines--Poles and towers Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Mediterranean influences Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Trenton Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Morgan, Walls & Clements
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