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Title: Basketball court and Friendship Bell, Angel's Gate Park
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator: Dimitrov, Slobodan
Contributor: Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa, 2001
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: The Korean Bell was donated in 1976 to the people of Los Angeles by the people of the Republic of Korea. It weighs 17 tons, has a height of 12 feet, and a diameter of 7 1/2 feet. It is made of copper and tin, with gold, nickel, lead and phosphorous added for tone quality. The friendship bell, as it is also called, signifies the gratitude of the Korean people for the sacrifice of the American units with the UN forces during their civil war. The bell is rung only three times each year: Fourth of July, Korean Independence Day (August 15th), and New Year's Eve.
View of a basketball court and the Friendship Bell at Angel's Gate Park, located at 3601 S. Gaffey St. in San Pedro. Angels Gate Park is a 64-acre former military reservation on Point Fermin at land's end. It was deeded to the City of Los Angeles in the 1970s for cultural use. Among some of the things visitors can see are: the Korean Friendship Bell, the Point Fermin Lighthouse, Fort MacArthur Museum, as well as a grassy picnic area that adjoins a bluff overlooking tide pools and a fabulous view of the harbor and Santa Catalina.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074979
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b3_f2_i47
CARL0000078139
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3822
Subject: Korean Bell of Friendship and Bell Pavilion
Parks--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Bells--California--Los Angeles
Basketball hoops--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Architecture, Korean--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Angel's Gate Park (San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif.)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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