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Order Number	00095998
Title	Pacific Telephone Co. Tower
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 102.
Date	1962
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;35 x 27 cm. on sheet 36 x 29 cm.
Notes	Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	John 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	Photograph caption dated April 24, 1962 reads, "It Will Have Microwave Radio Relay Launching and Receiving Antenna for All Communications."
Subject	Madison Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.). Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Telephone companies--California--Los Angeles. Office buildings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles). Streets--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles). Microwave antennas. Grand Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.). Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.). Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs. Parkinson & Parkinson.
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