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Title: Patrons departing Pan Pacific Auditorium
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Whittington, Dick
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Patrons departing from the main entrance of the Pan-Pacific Auditorium following an evening performance. The building's green and white western-facing 228 foot long facade shown here features 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.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00012622
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
A-008-667 4x5; L.A.-Auditoriums-Pan Pacific Auditorium.
CARL0000017351
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/88235
Subject: Pan Pacific Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Auditoriums--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Wurdeman, Walter C
Becket, Welton
Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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