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Order Number	00067904
Title	Theme Building, LAX
Photographer	Hankey, Roy.
Collection ID	Roy Hankey Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b121_f3_i36; A-012-256 4x5
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Historical Data	In 1928, the Los Angeles City Council selected 640 acres in the southern part of Westchester as the site of a new airport for the city. Mines Field, named after William W. Mines, was dedicated and opened as the official airport of Los Angeles in 1930, and the city purchased it to be a municipal airfield in 1937. The name was officially changed to Los Angeles Airport in 1941, and then to Los Angeles International Airport (also known as LAX) in 1949. This distinctive white Theme Building was part of a $50 million over-all Los Angeles Jet Age Terminal Construction project, which began in April 1960 and was completed in August 1961 at a cost of $2.2 million dollars. Architects Pereira & Luckman Associates, Welton Becket & Associates, and Paul R. Williams designed the building's 135-foot-high parabolic arches to symbolize the optimism of a futuristic Los Angeles in the space age. A restaurant that provides a sweeping view of the airport is suspended beneath two intersecting arches that form the legs. Approximately 900 tons of structural steel was required for the entire building. In 1992, the Los Angeles City Council designated the Theme Building a cultural and historical monument.
Description	The Theme Building, as seen from across a parking lot.
Subject	Los Angeles International Airport. Theme Building (Los Angeles, Calif.). Restaurants--California--Westchester (Los Angeles). Airports--California--Los Angeles. Automobiles--California--Los Angeles. Palms--California--Los Angeles. Parking lots--California--Westchester (Los Angeles). Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.). Williams, Paul R.,1894-1980. Pereira & Luckman. Welton Becket and Associates.
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	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection