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Title: Toronado at Los Angeles Auto Show
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
This show took place at the Pan Pacific Auditorium.; Pan Pacific Auditorium was located at 7600 Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax district. Its green and white western-facing 228 foot long facade featured four stylized towers and flagpoles meant to represent upswept aircraft fins above the entrance. Designed by architects Wurdemann & Becket, it was one of America's finest examples of Streamline Moderne architecture. From 1935 to 1972, when it was closed after the Los Angeles Convention Center opened, it held numerous sporting events, rallies, circuses, and car shows. After years of neglect and failed attempts at restoration, the structure was destroyed by fire in 1989. Pan Pacific Park is now located at this site.
Photograph caption dated October 22, 1965 reads, "Fashions, finery and the fantastic Oldsmobile Toronado were admired by Mrs. Charles A. Owen III, Mrs. Glen Mitchel and Mr. Mitchel (from left) at automobile show."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00105887
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3537
CARL0005263719
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31723
Subject: Los Angeles Auto Show
Pan Pacific Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
General Motors Corporation.--Oldsmobile Division
Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles
Oldsmobile automobile
Toronado automobile
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Couples--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Auditoriums--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Wurdeman, Walter C
Becket, Welton
Motor Car Dealers Association of Los Angeles

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