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Title
Avco Center, Westwood
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Laskey, Anne
Date Created and/or Issued
1978
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 highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi.; Title supplied by cataloger.
This collection is comprised of approximately 1,000 slides capturing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. The slides were taken during Tuesday afternoon walks in 1978-1979 by Marlene Laskey and her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, who was the primary photographer. Marlene (1933-1989) was a Michigan native who moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and became a Los Angeles historian and architecture enthusiast. At the time of her death from cancer, Marlene was working on a Master of Urban Planning degree at UCLA, and was an interviewer for UCLA's Oral History program.
Exterior of Avco Center, later AMC Avco Center, a movie theater located at 10840 Wilshire Boulevard in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Banners hanging on the building indicate that the films Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Movie Movie, and Same Time, Next Year are being presented. An office building is seen on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00090746
Marlene & Anne Laskey Wilshire Boulevard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b16_f5_i6
CARL0004997080
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116195
Subject
AMC AVCO Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Movie movie (Motion picture)
Invasion of the body snatchers (Motion picture : 1978)
Same time, next year (Motion picture)
Motion picture theaters--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Office buildings--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Slides
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period
1971-1980

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