Title supplied by cataloger. Located at 150 N. Los Angeles Street, the Police Administration Building served as the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Dept. from 1955 to 2009. Designed by Welton Becket, the 7-story, Modernist structure includes a horizontal slab with bands of windows on the long east and west sides, and glazed terra cotta panels on the short north and south sides. Horizontal 2-story wings extend out into the surrounding parking lots, defining an entrance plaza and a visual base for the building. After the sudden death of Police Chief William H. Parker on July 16, 1966, the building was renamed Parker Center. Hispanic demonstrators protest what they called police abuse of rounding up men looking for work on street corners. They are kneeling in protest in front of Parker Center in downtown L.A. Photograph dated February 20, 1989.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 34 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Parker Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Police brutality--California--Los Angeles Protest movements--California--Los Angeles Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles Police stations--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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