Photographed from the middle of four-lane Grand Avenue looking south toward 4th Street. Several high-rise buildings can be seen in the background, the most prominent is the PacBell Tower located at 420 S. Grand Avenue. John B. and Donald D. Parkinson built the 448-foot, 17-floor PacBell Tower in 1961, it was known as Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower then. The top of the building is a microwave tower that was used from 1961-1963. Today, it serves 1.3 million phone lines in the 213 area code for foreign long distance calls. Down below, shadows seem to cast a frame on a 'left-turn only' sign painted on the street. Photo dated: May 1981.; Similar to image 00068178.
PacBell Tower (Los Angeles, Calif.) Central business districts--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Parkinson & Parkinson
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