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Title
ABC Entertainment Center, Century City
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1982
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.
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Peter Shaffer's play, Amadeus, ran at the Shubert Theatre (demolished in 2002) from December 5, 1982 to January 30, 1983. The rest of the ABC Entertainment Center was demolished in 2004 and the site was replaced with 2000 Avenue of the Stars, an office tower designed by Gensler.
A nighttime view of the ABC Entertainment Center, a commercial complex home to the Shubert Theatre (left), shops, restaurants, and offices, in Century City in 1982. The Century Plaza Towers are present in the background and the signage outside the Shubert Theatre, left, indicates that Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus starts on December 4.
Type
image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00161537
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_123_f3_s4
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/140711
Subject
Skyscrapers
Office buildings
Commercial buildings
Marquees
Automobiles
Streets
Fountains
Electric lighting
Theaters
Plazas
Lost architecture
American Broadcasting Company
ABC Entertainment Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Yamasaki, Minoru,1912-1986
Greene, Henry George,1911-2005
Shubert Theatre (Century City, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Century Plaza Towers (Century City, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Avenue of the Stars (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Century City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Night photographs
Time Period
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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