Names: Standard Oil Tower of the Sun (California Pacific International Exposition, 1935-1936, San Diego, Calif.) / Photographer: Owens, Charles H. - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Photograph taken at the California Pacific International Exposition next to the Standard Oil Tower. Sailors stand in formation in the foreground, Navy personnel are lined up along a path and people are gathered around. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is in the background on the right.
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Art director Juan Larrinaga invented a motif for the ground level of the building that mayhave been inspired by repeat key patterns on the walls of the Place of the Dead in Mitla, Oaxaca. The cleanly articulated geometric designs on the tower were Art Deco in style.
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection