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Apr 11, 2016 · Two questions were put to vote in 1926. First, the voters approved Union Station instead of elevated railways by 61.3 to 38.7 percent margin. Second, the electorate voted in favor of the Los ...
- Union Station at The Oscars
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In 2021, Union Station added another historical notch in its belt by playing host to the 93rd Oscars on April 25th. The station has made numerous cameos in movies and commercials over the years. One of the most recent was scenes in the 2012 movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in which the facility played host to Bane's faux courtroom. The first was the S...
As Brian Solomon notes in his book, "Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals," Union Station Los Angeles is often credited as being the last great passenger terminal built in this country. Its architecture was a mix of California’s traditional mission-style with Art Deco touches. The facility, utilizing 25.5 acres, was completed at a cost of $11 milli...
According to architect Paul Hunter in Tom Zoellner's book "Train" Union Station Los Angeles provided a grand entrance into the city and Southern California: "Certainly I know of no other city in which arriving passengers leave the station through an open patio, filled with bright flowers, shady pepper trees, and flanked with tall palms. This scheme...
Feb 25, 2014 · Union Station didn't arrive at its own location, in downtown Los Angeles' northeastern corner, without struggle. It stands, in fact, upon the flattened site of the city's first Chinatown, whose sacrifice came as a result of a 1926 vote between the construction of a terminal or an elevated rail network. In the decades following the Second World ...
Jan 26, 2024 · An exuberant entryway into Los Angeles, Union Station was originally commissioned in the late 1920s as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT). It was built in a unified effort by leading rail services Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific to consolidate their depots into one location and alleviate foreseen ...
- Dots of Color. These 5-inch terracotta tiles in the outer courtyards, above the windows with the glazed tile benches, are unlike any others in Union Station.
- Dotted Line to the Past. The path between the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) building and the South Patio features a diagonal brick line, a division in space representing the border to the former edge of Chinatown.
- Upturned Modern Style. These sleek, angular light fixtures may look like upside-down, stacked traffic cones, but they were ultra-trendy art deco design elements back in the ‘30s.
- Taste of Old California. All the lights in Union Station were custom designed. Ten feet above your head in the station’s arcade hang these gorgeous lanterns.
May 7, 2024. Booking Hall, Los Angeles Union Station, host of the Academy Awards, 2021. Los Angeles Union Station is to LA what Grand Central Station is to New York. It’s our major rail terminus, designed and built to reflect the history and feel of the city back at us as we pass through. It opened in May 1939 with much fanfare, ironically ...
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Union Station was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 101 in 1972 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places and California Register of Historical Resources in 1980. In the eight-plus decades since its opening, Union Station has captured the spirit and soul of Los
