L.A. Public Library dwarfed by two giants

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Color view, looking north on Hope Street. United California Bank Tower, the tall black skyscraper with white trim can be seen in the background on the left The Library Tower is the cylindrical white building in the middle and the Los Angeles Central Library may be seen dwarfed and wedged between these two at the far end on Hope Street. Photograph dated: January 1990. United California Bank Tower, located between S. Hope, W. 6th, and Wilshire Blvd, was built in 1973 by The Luckman Partnership, Inc. Measuring in at 858 feet in height and consisting of 62 floors, this was the tallest building in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River from 1974 to 1982, until the completion of US Bank Tower in 1989