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Old Posted Mar 27, 2012, 8:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Engineeral View Post

The Waterworks Building, completed in 1927.

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Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.






I read somewhere the tower was built so the smell of hydrogen sulfide would be released high above the populace.


http://www.lapl.org/



google street view


Here is a link to the Academy's Fairbanks Center for Motion Pictures Studies now located in the old Beverly Hills waterworks.

http://www.oscars.org/academy/buildings/fairbanks.html

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