Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of traffic congestion and billboards in Century City, ca.1970-1979. In the extreme right foreground, a tight line of automobiles are pictured surmounting a hill. At left, a line of billboards extends along the length of a set of railroad tracks running to the left of a highway below. To the far left, tenement buildings can be seen through a gauntlet of telephone cables. Billboards from left to right read: "Welcome to Marlboro Country", "Now... 5 billion strong", "The aerospace bikes have landed", "KMET 94.7", "Seagram's Gin [...] Now $9.99", and "Century City".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 20 x 25 cm. photographic prints photographs
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