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CA -- Los Angeles -- City Hall:

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Description of Pictures: The AAA write-up mentioned you could go into the city hall and see a view from the rooftop. Next trip!
While I was there, there was an American Cancer Society rally "Relay For Life".

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LAHALL_090801_026.JPG: "He that violates his oath profanes the divinity of faith itself." -- Cicero
2. LAHALL_090801_043.JPG: In Memoriam: To the fighting men of the Fire Department city of Los Angeles who met violent death while in performance of their duties. Dedicated Oct. 14, 1944
3. LAHALL_090801_074.JPG: The Long, Tall Tale of City Hall: Like the Hollywood sign several miles to the west, City Hall, Los Angeles' most recognizable landmark, has played roles in both the real and fantasy life of the city it serves. But unlike the Hollywood sign, Los Angeles' fourth city hall building is a versatile place, an edifice of a thousand identifies. For decades, its 27 stories were by law the tallest building permitted in the city. In that towering role, City Hall has appeared in hundreds of films and television programs. Martian invaders destroyed it in the film "The War of the Worlds." In was the "Daily Planet" newspaper in the first "Superman" television series. Its marble interiors have doubled for Congress and the Vatican. For "Chinatown," the cinematic telling of the city's waters wars, sheep were herded into the ornate city council chamber. Yet its reality has been even more vivid. City Hall has hosted kings and queens, presidents and generals. Sports champions have been celebrated on the same steps where the homeless have slept. In June 1945, thousands fathered to acclaim the World War II hero-generals, George Patton and Jimmy Doolittle. When Los Angeles incorporated in 1850, it had 1,160 residents, 28 square miles and not a single public building. The city operated first from a hotel and then a leased adobe house. It was there, in 1865, that former mayor Damien Marchessault hanged himself after losing both his fortune and his reputation in a scandal over faulty city wooden water pipes. City Hall moved in 1884 to brick building on Second Street, where the Los Angeles Times now stands. Four years later, a $300,000 bond measure built the third City Hall, next to the city's first synagogue. The red sandstone showcase on Broadway served until the late 1920s, when it was dismantled and auctioned off piece by piece.
4. LAHALL_090801_078.JPG: Scandals and Seismic Shakeups: The new $5 million City Hall, the work of three architects -- John Parkinson, John Austin, and Albert C. Martin -- who also designed the Department of Water and Power building on Hope Street, opened in April 1928. To emphasize Los Angeles' central role in the state, builders used sand from every country, and water from wells at each of California's 21 missions. It was the tallest building in Southern California, and remained so until a height limit was repealed in 1958. The limit had to do not only with making it the most imposing edifice on the skyline, but with the city's shaky seismic underpinnings. The far-sighted designers built the tower with a compressible joint at each floor, like a human spine, so each could safely ride out the waves of an earthquake. City Hall was new, but incidents of graft and corruption were not. A turn-of-the-century mayor resigned after charges that he frequented brothels and that his aides were plotting to sell the Los Angeles River. Most notorious was the Depression-era mayor, Frank L. Shaw. Under his spoils system, contracts were awarded without competitive bidding and large industries were solicited for bribes in return for legislation to drive out their smaller competitors. The mayor's brother sold police jobs and answer sheets to civil service exams out of his City Hall office. The Shaw regime was responsible for political "hits" and even bombings against those who stood in its path.
5. LAHALL_090801_082.JPG: In 1938, newly elected officials put a big red sign on City Hall's doors reading "under New Management." Thus did they let the city know that the corrupt Shaw era had ended. One Light, Many Legends: Before World War II, the powerful Lindbergh Beacon atop the pyramidal tower shot a beam of light toward Los Angeles' airport as an aid to pilots -- part of the reason it was named after the famous pilot. A revolving light blinked "L.A." in Morse code. When the United States entered the war, the beacon and light were turned off for fear of attracting enemy bombers. The beacon is now displayed at Los Angeles International Airport, where a plaque says the light is "a welcoming symbol to the millions of visitors and immigrants who came to L.A." Only a few Angelenos have lain in state in the rotunda: Mary Emily Foy, the city's first librarian, who died in 1962 at age 99, William Mulholland, the controversial engineer who brought Owens Valley water to Los Angeles, Police Chief William Parker, civic reformer and attorney, Joseph Scott, and Tom Bradley, who served 20 years as the City's first African-American mayor. As the municipal landmark approached its diamond jubilee, the city launched a $300 million face-lift and retrofit, to preserve both its interior beauties and the durable and distinctive presence it has had for so long on the city's skyline.
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Wikipedia Description: Los Angeles City Hall
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Los Angeles City Hall, completed 1928, is the tallest base isolated structure in the world. It is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California. It houses the mayor's office as well as the meeting chambers of the Los Angeles City Council. It is located in the Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles in the city block bordered by Main, Temple, 1st, and Spring streets.

History:

The building was designed by John Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, Sr., and was completed in 1928. It has 32 floors and, at 454 feet (138 m) high, is the tallest base-isolated structure in the world, having undergone a seismic retrofit that will allow the building to sustain minimal damage and remain functional after a magnitude 8.2 earthquake.. The concrete in its tower was made with sand from each of California's 58 counties and water from its 21 historical missions.. The city hall's distinctive tower was based on the purported shape of the Mausoleum of Maussollos, and shows the influence of the Los Angeles Public Library, completed soon before the City Hall was started. An image of City Hall has been on Los Angeles Police Department badges since 1940.

Due in part to seismic concerns, prior to the late 1950s the City of Los Angeles did not permit any portion of any building other than a purely decorative tower to be more than 150 feet (46 m) high. Therefore, from its completion in 1928 until 1964, the City Hall was the tallest building in Los Angeles, and shared the skyline with only a few structures having decorative towers, including the Richfield Tower and the Eastern Columbia Building.

The building was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1976.

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An observation level is open to the public on the 27th floor. The Mayor of Los Angeles has an office in room 300 of this building and every Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays at 10:00am, the Los Angeles C ...More...
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