| Excerpts from article entitled "L.A's invisible builder" The Cadillac passes the old General Petroleum Building on Flower...where Massino reminds us how Becket found a way to build lighter skyscrapers by changing concrete mixing formulas - then noses onto Wilshire, passing a steady succession of tall, broad Becket buildings that thousands of Angelenos pass daily without a second thought, including the massize 1969 Equitable Life Building at 3435 Wilshire; and the 22-story Travelers Insurance building at 3600 Wilshire...... | ||||
| ....There's still plenty ahead. From Wilshire, the Cadillac heads up to the Capitol Records building (where a security guard blocks entry to the lobby), then to the Sunset Boulevard complex now known as Arclight's Cinerama Dome, where the manager shares a wealth of detail about the design and construction of the dome. But time is tight. Our tour is doomed to stop after just this handful of sites, leaving oh, 100 or more unexplored...... | ||||
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