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Looking northeast across Alameda and Macy streets towards the Post Office Terminal Annex, from which a helicopter is seen taking off. Dated March 15, 1956. The Post Office Terminal Annex was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood in the California Mission style and was built in 1938 the supervising engineer was Neal A. Melick. This 400,000 square feet building served as the main mail distribution center for the Metropolitan Los Angeles area from 1938 until 1994. Approximately 1,700 Post Office employees handled over four million pieces of incoming and outgoing mail on a daily basis. Although no longer used as a post office, the building is used occasionally as a filming site.