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Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963
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Automobile Club of Southern California engineering notebook photoprints, 1922-1941
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Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1939
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Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1939
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Description
Photograph (engineering notebook photoprint) of Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles. Also visible are: many automobiles, chain link fence, utility poles and lines, large tree, pedestrians, road, other buildings in background. Legible signs include: "Entrance to Sears Pico", "Sears Roebuck and"..., "Sears". This Sears was located on the SW corner of Pico Boulevard and West Boulevard on a lot bounded by the intersection of San Vicente and Pico. It had rooftop parking, as is indicated on the photo, a feature which was touted, together with its ultra-modern construction, in the planning phases in 1938. It opened in 1939.
Asset Metadata
Title
Sears Roebuck parking roof on Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1939
Subject
Automobiles
(lcsh),
Department stores
(lcsh),
Parking lots
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Pico Boulevard
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1939-10-19
Type
images
Format
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
photoprint : b&w ; 9 x 11.5 cm.
(aacr2)
Source
Automobile Club of Southern California
(contributing entity),
Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963
(collection),
Automobile Club of Southern California: Engineering Notebook Photoprints, 1922-1941
(subcollection)
Date Created
1939-10-19
Creator
Automobile Club of Southern California
(creator)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
yates.morgan@aaa-calif.com
Repository Name
Automobile Club of Southern California
Repository Location
2601 South Figueroa Street, H-118, Los Angeles, CA 90007-3294, USA
Rights
Automobile Club of Southern California
Access Conditions
213-741-4486;
https://www.calif.aaa.com
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/acsc-m703
Identifier
Engineering Notebook. Los Angeles City. Book VI. 39-119 (
call number
), AAA-EN-39-119 (
filename
), acsc-m1249 (
legacy collection record id
), acsc-c59-1201 (
legacy record id
), acsc-m703 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
1201
Unique identifier
UC1548016
Legacy Identifier
AAA-EN-39-119.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.9 in × 11.4 in at 300dpi
37.9 cm × 29.0 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Automobile Club of Southern California engineering notebook photoprints, 1922-1941
Description
The Automobile Club of Southern California Collection provides documentation on the region's transportation history, especially Los Angeles from 1892 to 1963, from the Auto Club's Corporate Archives. The Collection includes: a selection of 98 historic strip maps, illustrating the development of major Southern California routes; 498 photographs from the general photograph collection, depicting buildings, businesses, streets, and points of interest; and 650 photographs from engineering notebooks along with searchable transcriptions of the engineers' notes documenting the conditions of streets, highways, bridges, railroads, etc.
The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded in 1900 and its archive provides a distinctive picture of life in the region during the 20th century. The documents and pictorial materials relate not only to the Club's history but also to local and regional architecture, infrastructure, public policy, and cultural and recreational history.
Since 1909 the Auto Club has produced a monthly magazine focused on automotive tourism. The archived issues of Touring Topics and its successor, Westways, provide a chronicle of landscapes and destinations including extensive coverage of the deserts and coastal regions of California, the national parks of the American West, and Hawaii.
The club began to participate in deliberations about transportation policy in 1909. Its activities have included independent provision of planning studies as well as commentary on public policies, programs and proposals. In 1922 the Auto Club produced the first comprehensive traffic survey of Los Angeles, and in 1937 its engineers wrote the first detailed proposal for a region-wide freeway system. The working files for these projects provide a rich source of materials on the region.
A substantial portion of the holdings document the workings of the organization itself, from the executive staff to the daily operations in dozens of district offices.
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