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2. City of Quartz - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 978-0860913030. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful forces in its history. The book opens with Davis visiting the ruins of the socialist community of Llano, organized in 1914 in what is now the Antelope Valley north ...

3. Southern California Gas Company Complex - Wikipedia

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   June 22, 2004. The Southern California Gas Company Complex is a group of buildings on Flower Street in Downtown Los Angeles. The main building, completed in 1925, was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by John and Donald Parkinson. It was originally used as offices by the Southern California Gas Company, but was later converted to lofts.

4. Aon Center (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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   Aon Center is a 62- story, 858 ft (262 m) Modernist office skyscraper at 707 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, California. Site excavation started in late 1970, and the tower was completed in 1973. Designed by Charles Luckman, the rectangular bronze-clad building with white trim is remarkably slender for a skyscraper in a seismically ...

5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles

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   The Brockman Building is a 12-story Classical and Romanesque Revival building located in Downtown Los Angeles. Built in 1912, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It is currently home to an 80 unit condo complex on the top 11 floors, and the restaurant Bottega Louie sits on the 1st floor.

6. Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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   90026. Area code. 323. Historic Filipinotown (alternately known as HiFi [1]) is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods (Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, and Thai Town) in the city that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood.

7. History of retail in Southern California - Wikipedia

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   An 1853 ad in Spanish in the bilingual Los Angeles Star for Lazard & Kremer dry goods S. Lazard & Co.'s store on Main St. between 1866 and 1872 Hamburger's, "The People's Store" Spring Street Early 1880s Stern, Cahn & Loeb's City of Paris department store at 105-7 N. Spring St. (post-1890 numbering: 205-7 Spring), sometime between 1883 and 1890 Hamburger's building (later May Co. flagship) at ...