Paramount Building, Hill St., Los Angeles, 1960

Description

Photograph. "Downtown Paramount -- Soon, just a memory." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 15 September 1960. Legible signs include: "600 [...] serve [...] Bank of America", "Auction, Wed., Sept. 14th, 10 AM", "Muray's Millinery", "Herbert's diamonds, jewelry, 560", "keys, 3 for a $1.00", "Hillstreet Cigars, Garcia y Vega, the bonded Havana cigar", "Wines, liquor", "A & W root beer, 5¢", 35 story, electric air conditioned office building, now leasing. For information call Richard Denman, MA.4-3884. Over 600,000 sq. feet, floor area is 15,400 to 22,000 sq. feet, 14 high speed elevators, electronic parking 1 minute car delivery. Charles Luckman Associates, planning, architecture, engineeering. Guy F. Atkinson Co., building construction".
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Title:

Record ID:

examiner-m3128

Names & Dates

Created:

[circa] 1960-09-15

Creator:

[photographer] Levitt, Charles

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

[file heading] Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- P

Coverage:

[circa] 1960-09-15

Place:

[manmade features] Paramount Building
[roadways] Hill Street
[manmade features] Hillstreet Cigars
[manmade features] Herberts Famous Jewelry
[populated places] Downtown Los Angeles
[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

photographic prints
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographs

Access

Rights:

Public domain

Repository:

USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
specol@usc.edu

Ordering:

Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343

Identifiers

Record ID:

examiner-m3128

Source:

[bar code] 3-1275-02805-4402
[print box] Subjects 318
[file name] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-226