Hotel, apartment & office buildings along Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1959

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Photograph of a model. "Zoning limit must be lifted to make way for these giants -- Model includes 20-story hotel, 24-story office building, 22-story apartment. -- A $30,000,000 'city within a city' is scheduled to be built on Wilshire Boulevard within a year, it was announced yesterday by New York financier George W. Warnecke and Charles Luckman, whose firm has been retained as designers. -- 'We have negotiated a contract to sign a 99-year lease with the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles at $250,000 a year,' Warnecke said. -- However, before a lease can be signed, the present six-story zoning limit must be changed to enable Luckman's plans for a 24-story office building to get past the [...] some 3400 cars, a restaurant, swimming pools and other recreational areas. In the center of the buildings there will also be a commercial block to house a bank, drugstore and shops. -- 'The center is probably the first of its kind in the United States which will combine offices, commercial and residential structures in a planned community,' Warnecke said. Walls of the four major buildings will be of glass." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 21 August 1959.

Asset Metadata

Title Hotel, apartment & office buildings along Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1959

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1959-08-21

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)

Date Created 1959-08-21

Creator Cross, Herbert Bruce (photographer), Luckman, Charles (architect)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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-m4739

Identifier 3-1275-02805-7173 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-435 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-91191 (legacy record id), examiner-m4739 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-435 (original filename), Subjects 317 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 91191

Unique identifier UC11732814

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-435.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 11.7 in × 9.4 in at 300dpi
29.8 cm × 24.1 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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