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The waiting room ceiling looks like heavy timber. It is steel. Under it hang six chandeliers of 1,400 kg each, over 254 wooden chairs.
The ground took a fight. Los Angeles voted in 1926 for a single terminal to replace the three private ones, and voted by 51.1 to 48.9 per cent to put it on the Plaza. It went up across the street from there instead, on Chinatown, which was demolished to clear the site; during the campaign the Los Angeles Times had argued that the building work would mean the end of Chinatown. Underneath Chinatown lay a Tongva village. The station stands on three to twenty feet of fill over both.
It owned no art at all until the 1990s. One of the nine works put in since, May Sun's River Bench, runs water standing for the Los Angeles River over Chinese objects dug out of this ground.
The ticket concourse, 145 feet long with a 110-foot walnut counter and thirty windows, sells no tickets and is closed to the public. It is let for events and filming. Blade Runner made it a police station and built office sets inside it for the shoot.
The archaeological layers below are intact. How far they reach has not been established.