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Los Angeles, CA U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Armory in 1941

The U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Armory in 1941. This was designed by Stiles O. Clements. It is now a training facility for the Los Angeles Fire Department.

 

You can see the hillside leading up to Chavez Ravine and the future Dodger Stadium behind the Armory.

 

Okay, this is just bizarre, as far as I can figure out this is not on the National Register but it is a California State Historic Landmark:

NO. 972 NAVY AND MARINE CORPS RESERVE CENTER - Designed as the largest enclosed structure without walls in the world by noted California architects Robert Clements and Associates, this Art Deco building, constructed between 1938 and 1941 by the WPA, is the largest and second-oldest Navy Reserve Center in the United Stages. It has served as the induction, separation, and training center for more than 100,000 sailors since World War II well as the filming site for countless motion pictures and television shows.

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Uploaded on February 22, 2009
Taken sometime in 1941