Taken just months before the New Amsterdam's demolition, this photo shows CSU's University Tower (later renamed Rhodes Tower) under construction. The university, then only five years old, was already remaking downtown's eastern fringe from a working-class and poor neighborhood with dozens of aging apartment buildings into a Modernist honeycomb of concrete buildings and parking lots that emptied onto freeway ramps. | Creator: Sigmund R. KobusDownload Original File
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Sigmund R. Kobus
"New Amsterdam Hotel, East 22nd Street Side, 1969" appears in: New Amsterdam Hotel
