SPRING
STREET
STREETSCAPE |
These Beaux-Arts
buildings once housed some of L.A.'s most important businesses, law
firms and financial institutions. Spring Street was often referred
to as "The Wall Street of the West." To your right (north), in the
distance, is City Hall, designed by a collaboration of three architects,
Albert C. Martin, John C. Austin and John Parkinson, and completed
in 1928. Although it was "destroyed by Martians" in War of the Worlds
(1953), it gained new prominence later in the 1950's as the tall "Daily
Planet" building over which television Superman, George Reeves, leaped
in a single bound. It oozed with corruption "hush, hush" in the movie
L.A. Confidential (1997) which played upon its real use in the 1950's
Dragnet television series. "Just the facts, ma'am." |
