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Order Number	00071998
Title	Moving into Statler Center
Studio	Bona Fide Photo Service.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 468
Date	1952
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Construction is still going on as Lyon Van and Storage employees unload their truck. A battered sign "Danger, Road Under Construction" is next to the construction fence behind which men in hard-hats are conversing. Holabird, Root & Burgee of Chicago were the architects for the Statler Center which later became The Omni and then The Wilshire Grand Hotel. Photograph caption dated May 15, 1952 reads, "Part of a fleet of Lyon Storage Vans used to move Down Chemical Company to their new quarters, the entire 6th floor of the new Statler Center Office Building. Dow is the first tenant to occupy the $26,000,000 hotel and office structure."
Subject	Lyon Van and Storage. Statler Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.). Building construction--California--Los Angeles. Hotels--California--Los Angeles. Office buildings--California--Los Angeles. Streets--California--Los Angeles. Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles. Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.). Figueroa Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs. Holabird, Root & Burgee.
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 Herald Examiner Photo Collection