Title supplied by cataloger. Located at 800 N. Alameda Street, Union Station was designed by the father and son team of John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson, and opened in May 1939. The structure combines Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival, and Streamline Moderne styles with Moorish architectural details. It was named the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT) until Catellus Development officially changed the name to Los Angeles Union Station (LAUS). In 1980 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, Building #8000081. It is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #101. Looking southwest from a tiled portico at Union Station towards one of the station's front parking lots along Alameda Street. There is a glimpse of a billboard advertising Carlton cigarettes and Los Angeles City Hall is seen in the distance.
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1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm. Photographic color slides
Union Passenger Terminal (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Railroad stations Terminals (Transportation) Parking lots Trees City Halls Automobiles Billboards Advertising--Cigarettes Tiles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Art deco (Architecture) Architecture, Spanish influences Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Parkinson & Parkinson Parkinson, Donald B.--(Donald Berthold),--1895-1945 Parkinson, John,--1861-1935 Austin, John C. W.--(John Corneby Wilson),--1870-1963 Martin, Albert C.,--1879-1960
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