Samson Tires: A Sargonide Palace in central Los Angeles
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Adolph Schleicher, president of the company, wanted to include a Samson and Delilah motif on the main building, therefore ordered the architects Morgan, Walls and Clements to design the front wall in the style of King Sargon II's palace, a 7th Century B.C. ancient Assyrian palace complete with pillars, towers and stone bas-reliefs depicting mythological figures.
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