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Order Number	00110198
Title	Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower
Photographer	Harris, L. Mildred.
Collection ID	L. Mildred Harris Slide Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b94_f2_i54
Date	1962
Physical Description	1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	JJohn B. and Donald D. Parkinson built the 448-foot, 17-floor Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower, located at 420 S. Grand Avenue, in 1961. The top of the building is a microwave tower that was used from 1961-1963. Today, known as the PacBell Tower, it serves 1.3 million phone lines in the 213 area code for foreign long distance calls. The cluster of office buildings for the telephone company at this location is known as the Madison Complex.
Description	The Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower as seen from Pershing Square on May 12, 1962. A glimpse of the Biltmore Hotel is seen on the left.
Subject	Madison Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.). Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.). Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles. Office buildings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles). Microwave antennas. Trees--California--Los Angeles. Palms--California--Los Angeles. Parks--California--Los Angeles. Hotels--California--Los Angeles. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.). Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.). Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Slides Parkinson & Parkinson.
Coverage	1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970
Format	Photographic color slides
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Internal Notes	The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection