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Title: Crossroads of the World
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1935
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: Crossroads of the World in Hollywood. Designed to look like a Streamline Moderne ship with a tall, open tower on its prow that is topped with a lighted globe. Shops at the other end of the building from the tower are in the Spanish Colonial, Tudor, and French Provencial architectural styles. Photograph is a postcard from the 1930s. Architect was Robert V. Derrah, and construction took place in 1936.
Type: image
Format: Postcards
Identifier: 00042475
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-2(161) 4x5
CARL0000047142
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101044
Subject: Derrah, Robert V
Crossroads of the World (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Postcards

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