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Title
Delta Towers, Century City
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Musgrove, Dean
Date Created and/or Issued
1986
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Here are four prominent structures of Century City: the Shubert Theatre (left), the ABC Entertainment Center (right), and the Century Plaza Towers (background). The ABC Entertainment Center was designed by Henry George Greene, and completed in 1972 ; the Century Plaza Towers were designed by Minoru Yamasaki and built between 1969 and 1975. The complex has the world's largest underground parking garage with 5600 parking spaces. The Shubert Theatre was demolished in 2002 and the ABC Entertainment Center was demolished in 2003.
Photograph caption dated October 8, 1978 reads, "Century City's Delta Towers: Finished or unfinished?"
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 25 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00091295
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b085_f3_i2
CARL0004999743
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28369
Subject
ABC Entertainment Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Century Plaza Towers (Century City, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Shubert Theatre (Century City, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Office buildings--California--Century City (Los Angeles)
Theaters--California--Century City (Los Angeles)
Fountains--California--Century City (Los Angeles)
Motion picture theaters--California--Century City (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Century City (Los Angeles)
Century City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Yamasaki, Minoru,1912-1986
Greene, Henry George,1911-2005

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