A red car is passing on the street as pedestrians look through peep-holes at the on-going construction of the Statler Center. Cranes are hoisting girders to workers on the top floors. A banner on the girders proclaims "Steel Erected by Consolidated Western Steel Corporation". A sign on the construction fence advertises offices and shops for lease. Holabird, Root & Burgee of Chicago were the architects for the Statler Center which later became The Omni and then The Wilshire Grand Hotel. Photo caption reads: "Recent view shows progress on the $15,000,000 Statler Hotel. Companion piece to the hotel wil be an office building. Steel skeleton next year will become an ultra-modern hostelry, scheduled for completion and occupancy next year". Photo dated Dec. 25, 1950.
Statler Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hotels--California--Los Angeles Construction workers--California--Los Angeles Steel I-beams Building construction--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--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 Consolidated Western Steel Corporation Holabird, Root & Burgee
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