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Title: Crowd outside Pan Pacific Auditorium
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Rothschild, Otto
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1945
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: Pan Pacific Auditorium was located at 7600 Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax district. Its green and white western-facing 228 foot long facade featured four stylized towers and flagpoles meant to represent upswept aircraft fins above the entrance. Designed by architects Wurdemann & Becket, it was one of America's finest examples of Streamline Moderne architecture. From 1935 to 1972, when it was closed after the Los Angeles Convention Center opened, it held numerous sporting events, rallies, circuses, and car shows. After years of neglect and failed attempts at restoration, the structure was destroyed by fire in 1989. Pan Pacific Park is now located at this site.
People lined up to enter the Pan-Pacific Auditorium.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00012618
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Auditoriums-Pan Pacific Auditorium.; A-009-429 4x5
CARL0000017847
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/85347
Subject: Pan Pacific Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Auditoriums--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Signs and signboards--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Wurdeman, Walter C
Becket, Welton
Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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