Title supplied by cataloger. John B. and Donald D. Parkinson built the 448-foot, 17-floor Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower, located at 420 S. Grand Avenue, in 1961. The top of the building is a microwave tower that was used from 1961-1963. Today, known as the PacBell Tower, it serves 1.3 million phone lines in the 213 area code for foreign long distance calls. The cluster of office buildings for the telephone company at this location is known as the Madison Complex. Looking south from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on April 18, 1965. A glimpse of the Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower is visible on the left.
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image
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1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm. Photographic color slides
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles, Calif.) Music Center of Los Angeles County Madison Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Centers for the performing arts--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Microwave antennas Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Grand Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Slides
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