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The Hall of Records was estimated to cost $13.7 million in 1961. Counter proposals were made by the Los Angeles County Chief Administrative Officer to preserve the old Hall of Records and move it to the Temple Street location, however, it was estimated that the cost of moving the building would be prohibitively high--$1.5 million to move, and much more to renovate.
Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles; Holt Planetarium, Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley; Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Palomar College Planetarium, San Marcos; Planetarium Projector and Science Museum, [19] a museum of planeteria at Big Bear Lake
Presents new work by emerging and established artists, branch of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Museum of Flying: Santa Monica: Westside: Local history: Includes 50 vintage aircraft, and the desk/office of Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and executive boardroom of Douglas Aircraft Company, which was headquartered in Santa Monica
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The original owner of the property was industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the city of Los Angeles with 3,000 acres of land back in the 1880s. He raised ostriches on the property, and ...
Hall of Records may refer to: Hall of Records, a mythical library buried under the Great Sphinx of Giza; Kennedy Mitchell Hall of Records, a government building in New Haven, Connecticut; Kern County Hall of Records, a government building in Bakersfield, California; Los Angeles County Hall of Records, a rare high-rise by Richard Neutra in ...
Bell is an incorporated city in Los Angeles County, California, near the center of the former San Antonio Township (abolished after 1960). Its population was 35,477 at the 2010 census, down from 36,664 in the 2000 census. [6] Bell is located on the west bank of the Los Angeles River and is a suburb of the city of Los Angeles.
On December 16, 1896, 3,015 acres (12.20 km 2) of land surrounding the observatory was donated to the City of Los Angeles by Griffith J. Griffith. [4] In his will he donated funds to build an observatory, exhibit hall, and planetarium on the donated land. Griffith's objective was to make astronomy accessible to the public, as opposed to the ...