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Description:: View from the inside the clock tower of the old Los Angeles Times Building as it was being prepared for the May1938 demolition. Wooden beams are visible in the foreground and the newly completed Los Angeles Times Building can be seen in the distance through triple arch opening in the tower wall.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View from Broadway facing southwest towards First St. The old Los Angeles Times building and the adjacent building on the same block are being prepared for the May 1938 demolition. There is scaffolding around the base of both buildings. A sign on the adjacent building reads: "Being Wrecked by LA Wrecking Co. Inc., 810 E. 9th ... VA5135." A man on the 3rd floor of the adjacent building is handing wooden beams to a man on top of the scaffolding, who hands them to a man on the flatbed of a truck parked next to the scaffolding. A painted sign on the Times building reads: "Los Angeles Times, Largest Home Delivered Circulation on the Pacific Coast." The clock tower with its neon "Times" sign is visible above the roof line of the adjacent building. Old signs on the adjacent build read: "Double Cola," and "Old Mis[sion]."
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View from First St. towards Broadway and the old Los Angeles Times Building as it was being prepared for the May 1938 demolition. There is scaffolding at the third story and the top level of the clock tower, and the clock has been removed. A sign on a commercial building across the street reads: "139 / ... Artistic / Hair Shaping / 50 / IN LOBBY / OF LAW BLDG. / Tel ..." A sign on a small trailer attached to a parked car reads: "20th CENTURY FOX / FILM CORPORATION."
Date:: !938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the old Los Angeles Times Building at the northeast corner of 1st St. and Broadway with its rusticated stone facade, crenelated top, corner dome, and clock tower with a neon "Times" sign. The scaffolding around the base was part of the preparation for May 1937 demolition.
Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Clock tower of the old Los Angeles Times Building with a neon sign reading "Times" and with 5 wooden beams protruding, as the building was being prepared for the May 1938 demolition.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Worker breaking up a concrete floor with a jackhammer in the old Los Angeles Times Building in preparation for the May 1938 demolition. Another worker stands behind him.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Los Angeles Times Building, an art deco or art modern building in grey limestone, with Spring Street and vehicles in foreground. Other business signs include: Mobilgas, Mobil Tires, Mobil Batteries, Bahia Club
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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