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Description
Order Number
00095730
Title
General
Petroleum
garage
Photographer
Streib, Art.
Collection ID
Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession
HE
box
97
.
Date
1949
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
;26
x
21
cm
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Description
Plenty
of
room
-
even
if
future
cars
are
wider
.
RKO's
Gloria
Graham
illustrates
how the
designers
of the
new
450-car
General
Petroleum
Garage
made
the
structure
roomy
enough
for
even
the
widest
of
present
day
cars
like
the
1949
Packard
Convertible
. The
entire
structure
is
a
continuous
spiral
ramp
curving
from
basement
to
roof
of the "
one-story
building
six
stories
high.
"
Cars
are
parked
on the
sides
of the
two
traffic
lanes
in the
center
of the
ramp
.
Photograph
dated
February
28
,
1949
.
Subject
Parking facilities--California--Los Angeles.
Parking garages--California--Los Angeles.
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles.
Packard automobile.
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles.
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs.
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
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
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