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.; Title supplied by cataloger; The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi. One of many exterior lights which hang from ground floor archways of a two-building office complex located at 3701-3731 Wilshire Boulevard and designed by Edward Durrell Stone; this light hangs in the eastern tower. Present in the background is the western tower, which, at this time, was the headquarters for Home Savings and Loan. About thirty years later, the entire complex was renamed Wilshire Colonnade.
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image
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1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm. Photographic color slides
Home Savings and Loan Association (Los Angeles, Calif.) Wilshire Colonnade (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bank buildings--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Exterior lighting--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs Marlene Laskey/Wilshire Boulevard Collection photographs Slides Stone, Edward Durell
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