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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_130723_018.JPG: Mayor Richard Riordan
2. LAHALL_130723_024.JPG: Mayor Sam Yorty
3. LAHALL_130723_029.JPG: Tom Bradley
4. LAHALL_130723_050.JPG: The Lindbergh Beacon The beacon on top of the Los Angeles City Hall was turned on by President Calvin Coolidge from the White House during the City Hall dedication ceremonies April 26, 1928. The light was gratefully dedicated to Charles A. Lindbergh for his contribution to the advancement of aviation, and in commemoration of man's first transatlantic solo flight from New York to Paris on May 20, 1927. Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles
5. LAHALL_130723_054.JPG: "The city came into being to preserve life, it exists for the good life"
6. LAHALL_130723_058.JPG: "With written laws, the humblest in the state is sure of equal justice with the great"
7. LAHALL_130723_066.JPG: "The city came into being to preserve life, it exists for the good life"
8. LAHALL_130723_069.JPG: "No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and gives so much back."
9. LAHALL_130723_072.JPG: "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part"
10. LAHALL_130723_078.JPG: City of Los Angeles State of California Tom Bradley Room
11. LAHALL_130723_165.JPG: Protection Trust Education Health Law
12. LAHALL_130723_205.JPG: Torch of XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984
13. LAHALL_130723_208.JPG: The Olympic Spirit Lives To the nation's Olympic Torch Relay Runners and the many Telephone Pioneers of America who successfully carried the Olympic flame and its spirit to the Games of the XXIII Olympiad on July 28, 1984. Presented by AT&T, sponsor of the 1984 Olympic Torch Relay, to Mayor Tom Bradley and the City of Los Angeles on this, the first anniversary of the 1984 Olympic Games. July 28, 1985
14. LAHALL_130723_211.JPG: Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984 July 28 - August 12 Torch carried to City Hall by Maurice M. Mathews Olympic torch arrived Saturday, July 21, 1984, 4:20 pm
15. LAHALL_130723_248.JPG: Founding 1781 Public schools founded 1853 ???
16. LAHALL_130723_252.JPG: Finding Naming Site 1767 American occupation 1845 Opening aqueduct headgate ???? 1914
17. LAHALL_130723_255.JPG: American Occupation 1846
18. LAHALL_130723_262.JPG: "Let us have faith that right makes might." -- Lincoln
Wikipedia Description: Los Angeles City Hall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Usage:

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 City Council meets in their chambers. City Hall and the adjacent federal, state, and county buildings are served by the Civic Center station on the Metro Red Line.

Popular culture:

The building has been featured in the following popular movies and television shows:

* Adventures of Superman - as the Daily Planet building beginning in the second season of the 1950s TV series. At the time the TV program was broadcast, the show's "Daily Planet" building (Los Angeles City Hall) was frequently confused with the similarly designed Pennsylvania Power & Light Building in Allentown, also built in 1928. Additionally, the exact design of this building is used as the Newstime magazine headquarters in the Superman comic books.
* Alias - a CIA black ops unit is located behind a maintenance door at Civic Station.
* Dragnet - the building appears as itself in the TV series. The first episode of Dragnet (1951) Season 1, Episode 1: "The Human Bomb", Original Air Date: 16 December 1951 was filmed at Los Angeles City Hall. It was embossed on Sgt. Joe Friday's famous badge number 714 that was displayed under the credits.
* Adam-12 - During the Seventh Season opening credits montage, City Hall is shown directly at the end, as the building that officers Reed, and Malloy drive away from, it is also shown on the embossed badges, numbered 744 (Malloy), and 2430 (Reed).
* The 2003 Dragnet remake - used the L.A. City Hall building aerial shot and badge throughout its introduction.
* War of the Worlds - the City Hall was destroyed in the 1953 film version (although the H.G. Wells book has the aliens attacking London, the setting was changed to Los Angeles for the film).

and also in the following other media:

* Midnight Club: Los Angeles video game as part of Downtown Los Angeles of the city of Los Angeles.
* GTA:San Andreas video game as part of the city of Los Santos.
* Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Japanese manga series) - the building serves as the headquarters for one of the main occupation armies of the antagonist Principality of Zeon, under Garma Zabi.
* Miss Murder, music video by the band AFI (April 2006)
* Escape From L.A.- The building is shown sunken, along with the ruins of Los Angeles, as Snake Plissken operates his submarine toward the prison.
* SWAT 3 - One mission has the player rescuing hostages and defusing a bomb within the top floors of the building.
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