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1990s

Photo by Gary Leonard/Los Angeles Public Library

777 Tower

Cesar Pelli
One of downtown's most graceful high-rise office buildings, the 777 Tower designed by Cesar Pelli effortlessly pierces the downtown skyline with subtle articulation and detail.
Belmont High School. Photo by Jessica Hodgdon/L.A. Conservancy

Belmont High School

Stanton & Stockwell
Belmont High School garnered national attention for the role it, along with four other Los Angeles high schools, played in the East L.A. Chicano Student Walkouts (Blowouts) of March 1968. In the 1990s, Belmont High was one of the nation's largest schools with over 5,000 students.
Photo by Laura Dominguez/L.A. Conservancy

Bob Mizer Residence and Studio

Photographer Bob Mizer founded one of the first erotic art publications from his studio and home in Pico-Union in the 1940s.
Hollywood Boulevard east of Highland Avenue, near the parade's starting point. Photo by Laura Dominguez/L.A. Conservancy

Christopher Street West / L.A. Pride Parade

Christopher Street West spearheaded the world's first LGBTQ pride parade in Hollywood in 1970.
Circus Disco, 2015. Photo by Laura Dominguez/L.A. Conservancy.

Circus Disco (Demolished)

Architect Unknown
From 1975 to 2016, Circus Disco was a significant social and cultural anchor for LGBTQ Latinxs in Los Angeles.
Gas Company Tower
Photo by Annie Laskey/L.A. Conservancy

Gas Company Tower

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The 1991 Gas Company Tower rises in a series of cliff-like setbacks and inverted corners, with an elliptical top of blue glass symbolizing the trademark blue flame of the building’s primary tenant
Gehry House
Photo courtesy Architectural Resources Group

Gehry House

Frank Gehry
Starting with a Dutch Colonial Revival and building around it, Gehry would strip much of the interior while adding a new exterior of wood clad in plywood, glass, corrugated metal, and chain-link fencing.

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