611 Place is a 42-story, skyscraper at 611 West 6th Street in Downtown Los Angeles,

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, designed by William L. Pereira & Associates and completed in 1969. The building was commissioned by the now-defunct Crocker Citizen's Bank, and served as its Southern California headquarters until 1983, when it moved to Crocker Center, now

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. It was subsequently bought by

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. It was the tallest building in Los Angeles upon completion, and the first building to surpass

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in terms of structural height (many buildings had surpassed City Hall with decorative spires, the first being

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). It consists of a cross-shaped tower clad in vertical aluminum beams, and supported on its west side by an immense, blank slab of

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running the entire height of the building, which houses elevator and utility shafts and is used to display corporate logos. The building features a number of Pereira's design trademarks, including cleft vertical columns, grid patterned ceilings, and architectural lanterns fitted to the exterior. The building has appeared in several movies: *'' Mr. Mom'' (1983), where it appeared as the location of the Richardson Advertising Agency. *''

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'' (1997), the building be seen from an aerial view and street view as a dead body falls from an aircraft and lands on a car near the base of the building in the city of

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, California. *''

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'' (2000), This building is destroyed by an earthquake in this movie. *''

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'' (2004), where it appeared in shots of

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. *'' Along Came Polly'' (2004), where it was the starting point of an ill-fated BASE jump. * '' The morning show''(2019 - 1st season, 2021 - 2nd season), where 611 place is shown as UBA's headquarters.

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