followed shortly after by the Crocker Citizens Bank in 1969, seen in the photo below. Around the same time, the Los Angeles Central Library was falling into disrepair. Built in 1926 by Bertram Goodhue ...
On April 29, 1986, a fire raged through the Los Angeles Central Library. Nearly every firefighter in the city was there. It was the greatest loss to any public library in U.S. history -- more than a ...