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Title
Yucca Street and Vine Street, looking southwest
Alternative Title
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator
Kelly, Howard D
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
Publication Information
Kelly-Holiday.; C.L. Peck Co
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.
Capitol Records, located at 1750 Vine Street, is a unique 13-story, 150 ft high-rise cylindrical building that was built in 1956 by architect Welton David Becket and contractor C. L. Peck Co. The wide curved awnings over the windows of each floor and the tall spike emerging from the top of the building combine to give it the appearance of a stack of vinyl 45s on a turntable, although it was not originally designed with that idea in mind. The blinking red light on the tip of the rooftop spire spells out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code every few seconds, and has done so since the building's opening in April of 1956.
Aerial view of Hollywood with the Capitol Records Building in the center surrounded by other buildings near Vine Street and Yucca Street; view is looking southwest. The visible streets are (diagonally, bottom to top): Vine Street, Ivar Avenue, and Cahuenga Boulevard and (vertically, r to l): Yucca Street, Hollywood Boulevard, and Sunset Boulevard. Photograph dated February 17, 1956.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00088575
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b22_f3_i36 (Photographic print); KHAF 240-6
CARL0004938491
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4439
Subject
Capitol Records, Inc
Sound recording industry--California--Los Angeles
Buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Round buildings--California--Los Angeles
Music trade--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Becket, Welton
Time Period
1951-1960

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