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As the ferry building began to deteriorate, citizens of San Pedro sought to have it restored. They succeeded in having the building designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (no. 146) in 1975. Beginning in 1976 the building was restored (exterior) and remodeled (interior) into the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, which
Embarcadero Plaza, previously known as Justin Herman Plaza from its opening in 1972 until 2017, is a 1.23-acre (0.50 ha) plaza near the intersection of Market and Embarcadero in San Francisco's Financial District, in the U.S. state of California.
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is housed in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building, located on the main channel of the Los Angeles Harbor. It was designed in the Streamline Moderne style by architect Derwood Lydell Irvin of the Los Angeles Harbor Department. [2] It was built in 1941 at Berth 84, by the Works Project Administration (WPA ...
Los Angeles Harbor Main Channel: 0.86: Vincent Thomas Bridge: Wilmington, Los Angeles: 2.30: 1B: Ferry Street: Northbound exit and entrance Northern end of freeway and state maintenance at the site of the former toll plaza Ferry Street: Southbound exit and entrance Navy Way: At-grade intersection Berths 301–305 (Terminal Way) / Berths 401 ...
The former Passenger Waiting Room of Pier 1½ was converted into an architect's waterfront office, and the bulkheads of Piers 1½ and 5 were used as professional office space. While many of the piers were demolished, Piers 1 ½, 3 and 5 remain the most visible from the Ferry Building and Market Street, still the main thoroughfare of the city.
Map of the Embarcadero Freeway (purple) 1955 map of the planned Interstates in the San Francisco Bay Area. I-480 would have run along the north side of the city, while I-280 would run south along the peninsula. I-80 was to have run past the east end of I-480 to end at I-280.
Life in downtown Los Angeles is a roulette wheel of homelessness, wealth, film shoots, murals and the promise and burden of an unfinished city. To live and die in downtown L.A.: Drug addicts ...
The complex consisted of two towers on either side (a 32-story office building and the 24-story Hyatt Regency Los Angeles hotel) and an enclosed shopping mall between them, anchored by the new 3-story flagship store of The Broadway department store chain, with a six-level, 1550-space parking garage atop it. [4]