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Title
NBC Radio station demolition
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator
Jensen, Robert R
Date Created and/or Issued
1964
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
Overhead view of the ongoing demolition of the huge NBC studio complex located at the northeast corner of Sunset Blvd. and Vine. Many of America's most popular radio programs were broadcast from these facilities for over three decades. It was designed by famed architect John C. Austin and built in 1938. A Home Savings & Loan bank branch was later built on the site. Photograph dated: May 23, 1964.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068610
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Radio-TV-Studios.
CARL0000071623
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110398
Subject
West Coast Radio City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
National Broadcasting Company
Radio stations--California--Los Angeles
Television stations--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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