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One Front Street, formerly known as Shaklee Terraces, is an office skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 164 m (538 ft), 38-floor tower was completed in 1979, at which point the official address was 444 Market Street. The address was later changed as the number 4 is seen as causing bad luck in many Asian ...
It was the fifth tallest building in San Francisco when it was completed but is no longer in the top 30. [6] One California was one of three buildings, the other two being 555 California Street and McKesson Plaza, that was featured in a 1970 Newsweek article widely thought to have coined the term "Manhattanization". [2]
The "wholesale business quarter" of Los Angeles [8] was centered on Los Angeles Street around First and Second streets, New buildings were constructed in the existing Wholesale District over the next years, including one at 147-149 North Los Angeles Street for the Davenport Company, dealer in agricultural implements and heavy hardware; the ...
Downtown Los Angeles: 147: Morris Kight House: August 29, 2022 : 1822 West 4th St. Westlake: 148: King Edward Hotel: King Edward Hotel: February 1, 2021 : 117-131 East 5th St., 455 South Los Angeles St.
Streets change from west to east (for instance West 1st Street to East 1st Street) at Main Street. All of these streets run through Downtown Los Angeles. In addition, many of the streets also run through Westlake and Boyle Heights. 1st, 4th, 6th/Whittier, 7th, [1] and Olympic have crossings over the Los Angeles River; the others do not.
1st Street is an east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, and Monterey Park, California. It serves as a postal divider between north and south and is one of a few streets to run across the Los Angeles River. Though it serves as a major road east of downtown Los Angeles, it is a mostly residential street to the west. [1]
As stated in the New York Times, “first conceived in the 1950s by downtown power brokers like Buffy Chandler, the wife of Norman Chandler, who was then the publisher of The Los Angeles Times, the avenue was intended as a citadel of office towers and cultural monuments at the top of Bunker Hill.” [3] In order to do this, neighborhoods were ...
In 1876 the Newhall railroad tunnel located 27 miles (43 km) north of Los Angeles between the town of San Fernando and Lyons Station Stagecoach Stop (now Newhall) was completed, providing the final link from San Francisco to Los Angeles for the railroad. The 6,940-foot-long railroad tunnel (2,115.3 m) took a year and a half to complete.