Los Angeles Central Library
Historic Art Deco library crowned by a mosaic pyramid tower, rebuilt after a devastating nineteen eighty-six fire.
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This guide to Los Angeles Central Library opens on April twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six, when smoke began curling from the stacks and a fire investigators would call the worst in American library history burned for more than seven hours, destroying four hundred thousand books. It follows the case against Harry Peak, a young aspiring actor whose story of where he was that day kept changing. Listen for the mosaic pyramid tower above the entrance, its torch-bearing hand meant to symbolize the Light of Learning.
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