Skyscraper office building, 333 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, 1960

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Photograph of a model. "Artist's drawing [sic] of skyscraper -- Downtown Los Angeles' first skyscraper -- a 35-story aluminum, glass and marble office building -- will be built on the corner of Sixth and Hill Streets, according to plans revealed Monday by David Shusett, real estate developer. -- Rising 485 feet above ground level, the structure will cost more than $20,000,000 and will have an office area of 615,000 square feet. -- Included will be a 14-level electronic parking structure for 525 cars. It will be the tallest building west of Chicago, according to Charles Luckman, architect. -- To be known as the 333 West Sixth Street Building, it will stand on the site of the Downtown Paramount Theater Building which was built 40 years ago by the late showman Sid Grauman. Demolition of the theater will begin next month and will take six months to complete. -- The skyscraper, to be constructed by the Guy F. Atkinson Co., will be completed in the fall of 1962." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 9 August 1960.

Asset Metadata

Title Skyscraper office building, 333 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, 1960

Creator Cross, Herbert Bruce (photographer), Guy F. Atkinson Company (builder), Luckman, Charles (architect)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1960-08-09

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Miscellaneous (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 333 West 6th Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1960-08-09

Type images, physical objects

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), study models (aat)

Source Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m4744

Identifier 3-1275-02805-7108 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-441 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-91195 (legacy record id), examiner-m4744 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-441 (original filename), Subjects 317 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 91195

Unique identifier UC11733563

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-441.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 9.3 in × 11.6 in at 300dpi
23.6 cm × 29.6 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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