Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Height-Limit Building Cut for Setback Lines," Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug 1935: A2. The building is captured in a photograph taken across the street. Pedestrians and cars can be seen on the street. Engineers and architects will attempt to remove a ten-foot slice through the center of a huge office building. After the work is finished cement runways will be built under the west half and the mass will be slipped to the east and the two halves reunited. Handwritten on negative: Bldg 8 + Olive to be moved 8-[?]-35 Text from newspaper caption: The thirteen-story, height-limit Commercial Exchange Building at Eighth and Olive streets is being sliced in half to conform to the setback line of Olive street. Superimposed dotted lines indicate the ten-foot section which is being removed. Text from negative sleeve: 1841 - Commercial Exchange Commercial Exchange Bldg 8 + Olive St to be moved 8-27-35 [stamped:] Aug 30 1935
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