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Pershing Square West from Hill Street
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Biltmore Hotel under construction, Pershing Square, Los Angeles. 1922
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2 items: tear sheet of two articles in Downtown News, 9/1/1986, "The bad boys arrive" (Pershing Square designers), "Democracy in Pershing Square" (editorial) ; LAT clip, Sam Hall Kaplan (architecture critic) column for 9/2/1986, "New hope for historic Pershing Square."
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