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Know Your City No.201; Cityscape view looking west from the City Hall tower in Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Description:
ANSWER: West. That's the way you were looking in the photo from the City Hall tower. That's the roof of the Hall of Records in the foreground. Over at the left is the Law Building and steel structure for the new County Courthouse. Beyond Temple St. at the right it the four-level interchange of the freeways and, way at the left, Beverly Blvd. goes over Belmont Hill. Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills are out there in the haze somewhere.
Date:
June 6, 1956
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Know Your City No.201; Cityscape view looking west from the City Hall tower in Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Know Your City No.199; Cityscape view looking east from the City Hall tower in Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Description:
ANSWER: East. That's the view from the City Hall tower. In the foreground the top of the new Police Administration Building. At lower right the intersection of 1st and San Pedro Sts. Slanting across the photo just above center the Los Angeles River. Three bridges are visible--1st St., 4th St. and 6th St.
Date:
June 4, 1956
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Know Your City No.199; Cityscape view looking east from the City Hall tower in Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Know Your City No.198; Cityscape view looking north from the City Hall tower Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Description:
ANSWER: There were a million landmarks to tell you that the camera was pointed north from the City Hall tower. In the foreground are the top of the Federal Building and the Hollywood-Santa Ana Freeway. Off to the right are the clump of trees that is the Plaza and beyond it the Post Office Terminal Annex. At the extreme left N Broadway heads toward the tree-covered hills of Elysian Park.
Date:
June 3, 1956
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Know Your City No.198; Cityscape view looking north from the City Hall tower Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Know Your City No.200; Cityscape view looking south by west from the City Hall tower in Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Description:
ANSWER: The photo, looking south by west from the City Hall tower, is a panorama of the downtown business district. And, of course, it wasn't expected to baffle anybody. Too many prominent landmarks, including the Times and Mirror Buildings in center foreground.
Date:
June 5, 1956
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Know Your City No.200; Cityscape view looking south by west from the City Hall tower in Los Angeles, Calif., 1956