Know Your City No.4 Beethoven statue in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1955

Title: Know Your City No.4 Beethoven statue in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1955
Artist: Foerster, Arnold, $d 1878-1943
Date Created: November 21, 1955
Date: 1955-11-21
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: ANSWER: Surely you recognized the statue, in studied stride, of Beethoven that stands in Pershing Square. The statue faces the intersection of 5th and Olive Sts., being out in this new position after having been stored during the excavation for the parking garage beneath the park
Caption: KNOW YOUR CITY, NO.4 -- For years he was for the birds. But he went away for a while. And when he came back he was looking the other way. And, if he could, he'd probably make a note of that. Just for fun, who is he? And where is he? Answer on Page 9, Part 2.

Genre: news photographs
Names: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Statues
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Statues--California--Los Angeles
Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public sculpture--California--Los Angeles
Landmarks
Plazas--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b257_95950AD
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002t4cj
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights contact: UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country: US
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .