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The Airport Marina Hotel and its 32 lanes of bowling
Westchester, Los Angeles, California
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Welton Becket finished this 800-room hotel at Lincoln and Manchester in December 1962, as jet traffic turned the ground around LAX into a business district with its own downtown. It opened with a shopping centre bolted on: a Joseph Magnin store, a pharmacy, a bank and a 32-lane bowling alley. Amfac bought the hotel and the shopping leasehold in 1968 and ran them through its Fred Harvey division. The tower is still standing under later names.
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