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site on Flower Street for $1.1 million. The eight-story brick club, designed by archi- Ad for Tally-Ho Stables and Stables and Ad for Tally-Ho Carriage Co. tect Robert D. Farquhar, opened in 1930. tect Robert D. Farquhar,

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/ LIBRARY PUBLIC ANGELES LOS COLLECTION PACIFIC SECURITY OF COURTESY PHOTOS from 143 to 236. The bar’s from 143 to 236. The bar’s years, membership rose streamed to join. In two known and well-heeled few blocks away. The well- few blocks away. fers filled, the club moved a declined and the club’s cof- declined and the club’s But as that neighborhood California Club main lounge and exterior view.

needed a place to entertain friends with needed a place to entertain friends on the second floor of a building at 1st good cigars and hard liquor, and to court good cigars and hard liquor, Livery Stable. Founding members ponied estate market. The founders numbered estate market. The founders up $100 to join and $5 a month thereafter. about two dozen prominent members, would-be investors in the booming real would-be investors in the booming In 1887, a few pioneers decided they In 1887, a few pioneers decided Street and Broadway, above the Tally-Ho above the Tally-Ho Street and Broadway, The California Club opened in May 1888

/ PHOTO LIBRARY PUBLIC ANGELES LOS COLLECTION PACIFIC SECURITY OF COURTESY A Club For The Exclusive Exclusive The For A Club Fittingly, across the street from a symbol across Fittingly, of oil and banking wealth is an exclusive and yet it began life above — oil men became a bastion of cor- porate and a livery stable several blocks away. a livery stable several blocks away. first elite private club whose members include bankers and club, quickly civic power. The California Club, Los Angeles’ five-to-seven-million- year-old fossil stone. fossil year-old an entire bed of the Natland had 500 tons

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leum geologist Manley Natland had seen a View of Los Angeles looking southwest toward 6th and Figueroa streets, c. 1900. View of Los an annex to the building, Richfield’s petro- an annex to the building, Richfield’s Bauhaus architect and artist Herbert Bayer’s Bauhaus architect and artist Herbert Bayer’s fountain sculpture “Double Ascension” was created for the site in 1973. Years before, during routine soil testing for Years

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/ LIBRARY PUBLIC ANGELES LOS COLLECTION PACIFIC SECURITY OF COURTESY PHOTO TOP NC. Oil wells in the city at Figueroa and College streets, 1926. modernist International Style. including Dawson’s including Dawson’s included the Wiltern, El Capitan and on Dec. 10, 1967, an electrical fire in the of graceful old buildings, bookstore, Douglas Oil Richfield building, designed by Los Angeles architect Stiles designed by Los Angeles architect Richfield Oil Corporation merged with Los Angeles, the towers structural engineers, in the Mayan theatres. an apartment house, along with the and a fire spelled doom for the landmark. an architectural style unto itself. It was an architectural style unto itself. Not quite four decades later, a merger Not quite four decades later, to make way for the twin towers. the tallest buildings in were designed by A. C. Martin were demolished tower damaged parts of the building. Company, IBM and IBM Company, Partners, both architects and In 1969, the entire square block city’s first underground garage, became city’s Opened in 1972 as Atlantic Refining in 1966 to become Atlantic Richfield, and the following year, O. Clements, whose unforgettable work O. Clements, whose unforgettable The building, which also featured the The building, which also featured

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Project Team: Project Deanna Molloy, Executive Director LA Angels Walk Diego Nunez, Director of Operations LA Angels Walk Rogerio Carvalheiro, Stanchion Designer Cecilia Rasmussen, Writer Morrison, Writer Patt John Molloy, Planning Consultant Graphics: Lane+Lane Design Office Map: Cartifact Acknowledgements: Builders, LTD Polis Patsaouras, Nick Bill Robertson, Director, Bureau of Street Services lenos have never izing the black gold impressive, but Ange- name vertically now torn down. of the stock market of the oil industry, piece Art Deco Richfield Building R-I-C-H-F-I-E-L-D. gold stripes, symbol- soared skyward steel tower blazing significance on the arose on this site. and beloved Rich- the company’s the company’s for 13 stories to a forgotten its prede- field Building, or the walls and vertical crash, the master- city skyline has been the striking cessor, In 1929, the year Its black terra cotta “Black and Gold,” Richfield Building, c. 1930. original name, Arco Plaza, block, was known by its Richfield Co. The towers’ and was also home to the Bank of America in Los Angeles, and the Atlantic LA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PERMISSION TO REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL MUST BE GRANTED IN WRITING BY ANGELS WALK LA, I BE GRANTED IN WRITING MUST REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL RESERVED. PERMISSION TO LA, INC. ALL RIGHTS ® complex, which occupies a city For more than three decades, the that followed the black gold. capital, and to the banking money Los Angeles’ long history and oil twin towers are monuments to ing, granite-sheathed, 52-story ing, granite-sheathed, 52-story City National Plaza’s sleek, gleam- City National Plaza’s Prosperous Tall, Dark And And Dark Tall, NATIONAL NATIONAL

COPYRIGHT ©2007 BY ANGELS WALK COPYRIGHT Special Thanks to: Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa City Council of the City of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti, President Councilmember Jan Perry Councilmember Bernard Parks Supported by: City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services Los Angeles Department of Transportation AuthorityLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Figueroa Corridor Partnership Stakeholders Group South Park Business Improvement District South Park or for a copy of the Map/Guidebook, more information about Angels Walk Office at (213) 922-6000. Information For Public please contact the MTA

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judge — who had been pocketing some of — judge more members, and offer more services. its monthly dues from $5 to $1 to bring in roads in 1929, the Auto Club had already ists to “take an alternate route.” Many red and green lights. Since then, the Auto in the design of over the landscape, and the Club slashed over the landscape, and the own theft bureau to track down the thieves. petty offenses as driving in a swimsuit. bile Club signs on public officials ers in broken-down vehicles. When auto automated traffic signals right outside the an alarm clock,’’ and the second was the extended to and signals. at the edge of Culver City warned motor- theft became rampant, the Club started its tourists who ventured into Culver City via was sent to prison. — the fines himself By 1905, gas-powered cars were whizzing By 1905, gas-powered cars were way Patrol began monitoring the state’s formed its own safety patrol, rescuing driv- forerunner of familiar modern signals with traffic signs Club has continued to uphold the rights of form Vehicle Code and form Vehicle cross between a railroad semaphore and In 1924, Los Angeles installed its first corrupt officials. In the collaborated with Its vigilance Auto Club. The first was described as “a Several years before the California High- Washington were being fined for such Washington Washington Boulevard Washington 1920s, Automo- The signs were removed only after a local The Club helped to write the state’s Uni- The Club helped to write the state’s

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his auto out of the had “about 25 miles an hour concealed in its maiden trip gasping and sput- in Los Angeles for the manufacture of motor rush-hour speed to drivers a century later. downtown garage dozen of his friends hopped of the Mississippi River, made its of the Mississippi River, predicted, “before a factory is established but one which became an irritatingly slow sail from 5th Street down street at about 2 a.m. on aboard to make history. He cranked it up and set His chariot, billed as the first car west Broadway. As the machine Broadway. where it had been built. wheezed along, about a half- tering down a Los Angeles wagons.” It also noted that Erie’s vehicle wagons.” It also noted that Erie’s It wouldn’t be long, the Los Angeles Times be long, the Los Angeles Times It wouldn’t At that hour, Erie rolled At that hour, Automobile Club of Southern California headquarters prior to 1930. vitals’’ — a remarkable speed for the time, — vitals’’ Sunday, May 30, 1897. May Sunday,

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ARCHIVES CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN OF CLUB AUTOMOBILE OF COURTESY PHOTO NC. named J. Philip Erie. Car stopped in traffic at Hoover and Adams, 1947. Horseless Carriages Horseless lenos revved up the club to help stage auto motorists to navigate their way to the motor clubs in the nation. races and tours, and to lobby the legislature routes, Los Angeles became widely rec- on the patchwork road system between ognized as the heart of the “car culture.” began in 1900, when a group of ten Ange- Kansas City and Los Angeles that helped for better roads. It was one of the first Golden State. wealthy New York engineer and inventor wealthy New York In 1914, the Club began placing 4,000 signs car along its streets is believed to be a Auto Club courtyard featuring an antique car show, 1950s. With its broad avenues and car-friendly With its broad avenues and car-friendly The First Of Millions Of Of Millions First The The Automobile Club of Southern California The first man to drive a gasoline-powered

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Revival towers Project Team: Project Deanna Molloy, Executive Director LA Angels Walk Diego Nunez, Director of Operations LA Angels Walk Rogerio Carvalheiro, Stanchion Designer Cecilia Rasmussen, Writer Morrison, Writer Patt John Molloy, Planning Consultant Graphics: Lane+Lane Design Office Map: Cartifact Acknowledgements: Builders, LTD Polis Patsaouras, Nick Bill Robertson, Director, Bureau of Street Services LA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PERMISSION TO REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL MUST BE GRANTED IN WRITING BY ANGELS WALK LA, I BE GRANTED IN WRITING MUST REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL RESERVED. PERMISSION TO LA, INC. ALL RIGHTS ® Church, were all built at the style St. John’s Episcopal style St. John’s same intersection during the Roaring Twenties. popularizing of an Indiana jour- Easterners who heeded New York Easterners who heeded New York the region’s automobile culture. the region’s has guided drivers and shaped Tribune editor Horace Greeley’s editor Horace Greeley’s Tribune For over a century, the Auto Club For over a century, nalist’s advice to “go west” could nalist’s motorists. are not adorned with the images of saints — just the red, white and blue — saints AAA logo which has come to mean roadside assistance to millions of thank the Auto Club for ensuring that along with the imposing Romanesque- lic St. Vincent de Paul church. The two, lic St. Vincent

they didn’t get lost en route. they didn’t mistaken for the ornate Roman Catho-

ARCHIVES CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN OF CLUB AUTOMOBILE OF COURTESY PHOTO of Southern California has sometimes been of Southern California has sometimes Command Post For Southern Southern For Post Command Culture Car California’s COPYRIGHT ©2007 BY ANGELS WALK COPYRIGHT The headquarters of the Automobile Club The headquarters of the Automobile Special Thanks to: Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa City Council of the City of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti, President Councilmember Jan Perry Councilmember Bernard Parks Supported by: City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services Los Angeles Department of Transportation AuthorityLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Figueroa Corridor Partnership Stakeholders Group South Park Business Improvement District South Park or for a copy of the Map/Guidebook, more information about Angels Walk Office at (213) 922-6000. Information For Public please contact the MTA AUTOMOBILE ANGELS WALK FIGUEROA

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ins. The Raiders arrived in 1982 and stayed for back to Oakland, and to their own stadium in the stadium lost both the Rams and the Bru- Coliseum home from Chavez Ravine in 1961.

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mation. On the ground, land mines were Fans made such a din that players had to identity as the Hollywood sign. Football soon became the Coliseum’s main- Football soon became the Coliseum’s nessed Los Angeles’ first World Series. nessed Los Angeles’ first World only stadium in the world to host two onship five years later. onship five years later. detonated and tanks rolled through the 3rd Army’s darkness to simulate Patton’s both a national and state historic landmark, Europe, 105,000 people welcomed Gen. stay. The UCLA Bruins arrived in 1929 and The UCLA Bruins arrived in 1929 and stay. came from stayed for 52 years. The Rams Doolittle. In a mock battle in the Coliseum, searchlights sent pillars of light into the warplanes flying in for- illuminating sky, and a World Series. Today, the Coliseum is Series. Today, and a World almost as much a part of Los Angeles’ civic thrust toward Berlin. George S. Patton Jr. and Lt. Gen. James H. George S. Patton Jr. Cleveland in 1946, winning the pro champi- Cleveland in 1946, winning the communicate with hand signals. In 1959, more than 92,000 spectators wit- Olympiads, two Super Bowls (I and VII), On June 1945, after the Allied victory in Then Came The Dodgers The Came Then

RESEARCH HISTORY WESTERN FOR CENTER SEAVER OF COURTESY PHOTO Opening day for the Los Angeles Dodgers at the Coliseum, April 18, Angeles Dodgers at the Coliseum, April 18, Opening day for the Los introduces Dodger skipper 1958. Comedian Joe E. Brown (center) to the crowd. Giants manager Bill Rigney looks Walter Alston (right) Dodgers won, 6-5, before a crowd of 78,672. on. The jans won five Rose Bowls and two national league sport team, is Los Angeles? Is it anywhere near Holly- not have a major did have: USC football. because I like you personally. But where because I like you personally. Even without the Los Angeles did During the 1920s and ‘30s, the USC Tro- so the city’s undi- so the city’s ated excitement. Hollywood — on turned to what it traditions in college athletics. wood?” The 1932 the map. Coliseum cre- championships, founding one of the richest Post-World War I War Post-World Olympics put Los Angeles — not just Olympics, the vided attention

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Olympic Dreams And And Dreams Olympic College Teams College heroic male and female nude torsos by art- Garland the civic booster William May later, landed the 1932 Olympic summer games. Xth Olympiad opening ceremonies, July 30, 1932. For the 1984 Olympic Games, the entrance ist Robert Graham. evoked ancient Greek and Roman arenas. the Olympic Games. The peristyle design was ornamented with “Olympic Gateway,” was ornamented with “Olympic Gateway,” Pomona College dug the first divots. A year It opened in 1923, and was named the In 1923, the football game between USC and Olympic Stadium in hopes of attracting

Angelenos COLISEUM MEMORIAL ANGELES LOS OF COURTESY transformed PHOTO civic-minded a group of some barren acreage into a memorial to war about because seats, and here, Billy Graham and Stones rocked its Pope John Paul II ters. The Rolling veterans and a preached. landmark that has All that history came struck out 18 bat- withstood both time and Angelenos’ fondness NC. for demolishing their past. LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM ANGELES LOS As the 20th century dawned, the site known as Agricultural Park had deteriorated into a Sodom of saloons and brothels around an auto race track. became the property of the city, county became the property of the city, M. Bowen cleaned up the park and, with sports and civic events. The new Coliseum and state, each represented equally on the George Bovard, proposed a stadium for commission that still runs the Coliseum. A Sunday school teacher named William University of Southern California President L.A.

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O H P Henie skated. Nelson Mandela MEMORIAL A Coliseum For All All For A Coliseum Seasons And Sports And Seasons jewel-box of civic like its namesake in home runs, memories: college ing designed to enhance iseum is an immense rock concerts, of the most Rome, it is one professional baseball presidential Los Angeles’ image, but enduring. speeches, steel oval Los and pro-team and John F. Kennedy spoke here to and John F. touchdowns, tens of thousands. Sandy Koufax It wasn’t the first public build- It wasn’t concrete and Angeles Memorial Col- COPYRIGHT ©2007 BY ANGELS WALK COPYRIGHT Special Thanks to: Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa City Council of the City of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti, President Councilmember Jan Perry Councilmember Bernard Parks Supported by: City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services Los Angeles Department of Transportation AuthorityLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Figueroa Corridor Partnership Stakeholders Group South Park Business Improvement District South Park or for a copy of the Map/Guidebook, more information about Angels Walk Office at (213) 922-6000. Information For Public please contact the MTA The huge USC football game, 1940s. ANGELS WALK FIGUEROA

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