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Title: Development of Valley Plaza brings vast market center
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes; Original print has vertical crease along left side.
Photograph article dated May 1, 1956 partially reads, "Valley Plaza, biggest regional shopping center in the San Fernando Valley and in all of Southern California after only a few years of existence, has the unusual distinction of possessing not only one but three different birth dates. It was first visualized as a bringing into the Valley of a center modeled after the original Plaza of the old Pueblo of Los Angeles and making this an L.A. "downtown." In 1942, a combination of various proposals for transforming the entire San Fernando Valley into a big city first took shape in the mind of Bob Symonds, longtime realtor and developer who after helping put together the Wilshire Miracle Mile proposed to produce an even greater miracle in the Valley. Then in 1951 a dream became a reality."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00111996
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d013_f5_i28
CARL0005263710
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/46117
Subject: Valley Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Shopping centers--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Real estate development--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Real estate developers--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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