Los Angeles City Hall from Hill Street
(photo:jjron)
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"“Great care was taken to see that the [Los Angeles] City Hall was constructed of native materials. California granite faces the exterior up to the fourth floor. A melange of local ores formed the bronze for the ceremonial doors of the forecourt. The building’s mortar was mixed with sand from each county, cement from each mill in the state, and water from each of the twenty-one missions. Inside, the building features a four-story Spanish-Gothic rotunda and, in a heavily romantic style, several marble mosaics depicting local history.” -- Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles by Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver
Civic Center Plaza, seen from the top floor of the Los Angeles City Hall
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MGM Studios lighting the Los Angeles City Hall at the dedication ceremony, 1928
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(photo: Matthew Field)
Rotunda ceiling paintings Herman Sachs and Anthony Heisenbergen, designer by Austin Whittlesley.
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Brass floor plaque on the third floor depicting "The Lost Ship of the Desert"
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Interior hallway ceiling
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Office door
The Los Angeles Times estimates the number of local gang members to be 120,000
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Dining at the Homeboy snack shop in the Los Angeles city hall
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Badge of the Los Angeles Police department
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Los Angeles City Hall as Superman's/Clark Kent's Daily Planet
(art by Kiel Bryant)
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Aliens destroy the Los Angeles City Hall in War of the Worlds (1953)
