Construction is still going on as Lyon Van and Storage employees unload their truck. A battered sign "Danger, Road Under Construction" is next to the construction fence behind which men in hard-hats are conversing. Holabird, Root & Burgee of Chicago were the architects for the Statler Center which later became The Omni and then The Wilshire Grand Hotel. Photograph caption dated May 15, 1952 reads, "Part of a fleet of Lyon Storage Vans used to move Down Chemical Company to their new quarters, the entire 6th floor of the new Statler Center Office Building. Dow is the first tenant to occupy the $26,000,000 hotel and office structure."
Lyon Van and Storage Statler Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Building construction--California--Los Angeles Hotels--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Figueroa Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Holabird, Root & Burgee
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