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- Title
- Los Angeles International Airport
- Alternative Title
- Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1962
- Contributing Institution
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Los Angeles Public Library
- Collection
-
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
- Rights Information
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Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
- Description
- In 1928, the Los Angeles City Council selected 640 acres in the southern part of Westchester as the site of a new airport for the city. Mines Field, named after William W. Mines, was dedicated and opened as the official airport of Los Angeles in 1930, and the city purchased it to be a municipal airfield in 1937. The name was officially changed to Los Angeles Airport in 1941, and then to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in 1949. This distinctive white Theme Building was part of a $50 million over-all Los Angeles Jet Age Terminal Construction project, which began in April 1960 and was completed in August 1961 at a cost of $2.2 million dollars. Architects Pereira & Luckman Associates, Welton Becket & Associates, and Paul R. Williams designed the building's 135-foot-high parabolic arches to symbolize the optimism of a futuristic Los Angeles in the space age. A restaurant that provides a sweeping view of the airport is suspended beneath two intersecting arches that form the legs. Approximately 900 tons of structural steel was required for the entire building. In 1992, the Los Angeles City Council designated the Theme Building a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
Aerial view of Los Angeles International Airport.
- Type
- image
- Format
- 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
- Identifier
- 00031615
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airports-L.A.-Mines Field (LAX)
CARL0000033879
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/96074
- Subject
- Los Angeles International Airport
Theme Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Airports--California--Los Angeles
Parking lots--California--Westchester (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Westchester (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Aerial photographs
Williams, Paul R.,1894-1980
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Welton Becket and Associates
Pereira & Luckman
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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