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Title: Whittier Downs Shopping Center, Santa Fe Springs
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday.; Pereira & Luckman
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Designed by architectural firm Pereira & Luckman with elements to maximize visual merchandising, this $3,000,000 shopping center opened in 1955. After just three decades of use, Whittier Downs Shopping Center was razed due to declining popularity.
Looking northwest from Washington Boulevard (running along the lower left corner) where it crosses Norwalk Boulevard at the Whittier Downs Shopping Center in Santa Fe Springs. Some of the center's retailers include: J. C. Penney, Thrifty Drug Co., F.W. Woolworth Co., and a Food Giant supermarket. In the foreground is another shopping center, which includes a King Cole Market, designed by A. Quincy Jones. Beyond the sea of homes in West Whittier and Santa Fe Springs is the San Gabriel River. Photograph dated February 16, 1956.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088595
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 238-17
CARL0004936446
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4407
Subject: Whittier Downs Shopping Center (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.)
Shopping centers--California--Santa Fe Springs
Stores & shops--California--Santa Fe Springs
Department stores--California--Santa Fe Springs
Grocery stores--California--Santa Fe Springs
Streets--California--Santa Fe Springs
Supermarkets--California--Santa Fe Springs
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles County
Lost architecture--California--Santa Fe Springs
Dwellings--California--Santa Fe Springs
Rivers--California, Southern
San Gabriel River (Calif.)--Aerial views
Santa Fe Springs (Calif.)--Aerial views
Santa Fe Springs (Calif.)
San Gabriel River (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Jones, A. Quincy(Archie Quincy),1913-1979
Time Period: 1951-1960

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