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Order Number	00072429
Title	Hall of Justice and surrounding vicinity
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	L.A.-Views, Panoramic-Central City-1950-1969.
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w
Description	View from top of City Hall, looking northwest toward the County Hall of Justice and the area beyond; the 101 Hollywood Freeway can be seen behind the buildings. The stately 14-story Beaux Arts structure was designed by Allied Architects in 1922, and housed the Los Angeles County courts, Los Angeles County Coroner, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, Los Angeles County District Attorney, and was for many years the primary Los Angeles County jail, until it was damaged by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, at which point it was completely abandoned. The top five floors formerly served as the county's main jail facility to famous, or infamous, residents such as: Robert Mitchum (actor, served a 50-day sentence on marijuana charges); Charles Manson (cult-leader serving life imprisonment on seven counts of murder); gangster "Bugsy" Siegal (served time for murder but was later acquitted of all charges); and Sirhan Sirhan (serving life imprisonment for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy) among others. Not only did the top floors contain history, the basement did as well; it housed the City Morgue and several pathology labs. Autopsies performed here included that of Marilyn Monroe, and ironically enough, Robert F. Kennedy - whose killer was, or would be, housed a few floors above. For closer view of same photo see: 00072430.
Subject	Los Angeles County Hall of Justice. Municipal buildings--California--Los Angeles. Express highways--California, Southern. Public buildings--California--Los Angeles. Courthouses--California--Los Angeles. Streets--California--Los Angeles. United States Highway 101. Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection