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Description
Photograph. "Downtown Paramount -- Soon, just a memory." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 15 September 1960. Legible signs include: "600 [...] serve [...] Bank of America", "Auction, Wed., Sept. 14th, 10 AM", "Muray's Millinery", "Herbert's diamonds, jewelry, 560", "keys, 3 for a $1.00", "Hillstreet Cigars, Garcia y Vega, the bonded Havana cigar", "Wines, liquor", "A & W root beer, 5¢", 35 story, electric air conditioned office building, now leasing. For information call Richard Denman, MA.4-3884. Over 600,000 sq. feet, floor area is 15,400 to 22,000 sq. feet, 14 high speed elevators, electronic parking 1 minute car delivery. Charles Luckman Associates, planning, architecture, engineeering. Guy F. Atkinson Co., building construction". Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
-118.284,34.01362 -118.22653,34.05371 -118.24958,34.02916 -118.27293,34.0525 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Hill Street Paramount Building Hillstreet Cigars Herberts Famous Jewelry USA
Source
3-1275-02805-4402 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-226 [Original Filename] Subjects 318 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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