Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the dramatic Barrington Plaza, luxury apartment project now under construction at Barrington Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles, which features 26-story building soaring 315 feet above Wilshire Boulevard, highest residential building in the West. Exterior "skin" of buildings is composed of glass window walls and bronze anodized aluminum. Wilkes-Nichols & Associates. "Barrington Plaza qualifies as fallout shelter. From left, Paul Visher, Joe Quinn, Lou Lesser study survey." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 15 October 1961. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
-118.45994,34.04947 -118.45811,34.04713 -118.45905,34.04659 -118.46082,34.04867 Barrington Avenue & Wilshire Boulevard Barrington Plaza California Los Angeles USA West Los Angeles
Source
3-1275-02805-2273 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-031 [Original Filename] Subjects 317 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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