NORTH
BROADWAY CLOCK
DESTROYED!
10/12/06
Update: 1/15/2010
I went to look at the street clock
location and something is happening.
A new concrete base/foundation with new wiring
was recently installed.
The location was moved back about a foot away
from the curb.
The original metal base cover (hopefully stored
somewhere) is gone and only the concrete footing is there for now.
We'll see how it progresses!
Update: 3/1/2010
Lincoln Heights has a new street
clock!
A few years it was finally replaced and positioned
correctly.
After all these years the original clock was
facing the wrong way.
Everything is totally new including the base
that was not needed. But in order for the new clock to be installed it
needed its new base.
10/12/06
A few
days ago a production company was filming at the Airliner Club on North
Broadway and one of their trucks backed into the clock and knocked it down.
Apparently it is now in three pieces: the base, the vertical shaft and
the clock head all were separated in the accident. The clock head
was severely damaged, the support column to a lesser degree, and the base
survived. The fallen pieces was then carted away by LA City Street
Services. The Lincoln Heights Chamber of Commerce is trying to locate it
and get in back into their possession (before who knows what might happen
to it).
Local
community members are going to fight tooth-and-nail to get the clock fixed
(not replaced) by the production company. The worst part is that
the production company is actually denying everything.
Street clock before it was
damaged.
Photo by Stephen Sariñana-Lampson.
Street clock TODAY.
Photo by Stephen Sariñana-Lampson.
10/17/06:
Looks
like the clock will never be replaced since it can't be found or it's in
some recycling center somewhere. Even if it's found it is so severely damaged
that it's not so easy gluing back the pieces, the clock head was shattered.
Another
piece of history just thrown out with the street trash. There is no excuse
for this to happen. "There are no such things as accidents."
UPDATES WILL FOLLOW
AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE
Or if facts change
then I will correct it here.
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