Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger. John B. and Donald D. Parkinson built the 448-foot, 17-floor Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower, located at 420 S. Grand Avenue, in 1961. The top of the building is a microwave tower that was used from 1961-1963. Today, known as the PacBell Tower, it serves 1.3 million phone lines in the 213 area code for foreign long distance calls. The cluster of office buildings for the telephone company at this location is known as the Madison Complex. Photograph caption dated April 24, 1962 reads, "It Will Have Microwave Radio Relay Launching and Receiving Antenna for All Communications."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;35 x 27 cm. on sheet 36 x 29 cm. Photographic prints
Madison Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Streets--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Microwave antennas Grand Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Parkinson & Parkinson
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