A Piece of Rock from the Sixth Street Viaduct Los Angeles With Certificate

Description

I am selling a rock from the Sixth Street Viaduct in Los Angeles. It comes with a certificate of Authenticity. Constructed in 1932, the Sixth Street Viaduct demolished in 2016 due to concerns over seismic instability. The bridge was a well-known local landmark, and has appeared in numerous films, television shows, music videos and video games since 1932, listed below:
Films:
Them! (1954)
Hot Rod Girl (1956)
Point Blank (1967)
That Man Bolt (1973)
Freaky Friday (1976)
Grease (1978)
Blue Thunder (1983)
Repo Man (1984)
Savage Streets (1984)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Armed and Dangerous (1986)
The Naked Gun (1988)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Blood In Blood Out (1993)
The Mask (1994)
My Family (1995)
Playing God (1997)
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Biker Boyz (2003)
The Core (2003)
National Security (2003)
Terminator 3 (2003)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Be Cool (2005)
Dirty (2005)
Drive (2011)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
In Time (2011)
Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
Knight of Cups (2015)
Furious 7 (2015)
Music videos:
The Psycho Realm video for "Stone Garden"
Good Charlotte video for The River
Madonna videos for "What It Feels Like for a Girl" and "Borderline"
Transplants video for Gangsters and Thugs single
System of a Down video for Lonely Day single
INXS video for Afterglow
The Pussycat Dolls video for Don't Cha
Pussycat Dolls video for Stickwitu
Blink-182 video for Down
Kanye West video for Jesus Walks
Kid Rock video for American Bad Ass
Ne-Yo video for Beautiful Monster
Future video for "Shit"
Avril Lavigne video for What the Hell
Thirty Seconds to Mars video for Kings and Queens
Tyga video for "Reminded"
Foo Fighters video for "Walk"
Usher video for My Way
Bruno Mars video for Grenade
Christina Milian video for "Say I"
Ray J video for "What I Need"
Chris Brown video for Deuces
Far East Movement video for "Rocketeer"
The D.O.C video for "It's Funky Enough"
Limp Bizkit video for "Gold Cobra"
Jimmy Ray video for " Are you Jimmy Ray "
Maroon 5 video for "Payphone (song)"
Pixie Lott video for "All About Tonight" (2011)
Everlast video for "Long At All" (2012)
Conor Maynard video for "Turn Around" (2012)
Cheryl Cole video for "Call My Name" (2012)
Zedd video for "Clarity" (2012)
The Lonely Island video for "Yolo" (2013)
Pharrell Williams video for "Happy" [Despicable Me 2] (2013)
Calvin Harris and Alesso featuring Hurts video for "Under Control" (2013)
Galantis video for "You"
Paolo Nutini video for "Scream (Funk My Life Up)"
London Grammar video for "Strong" (2013)
The Summer Set video for "Maybe Tonight" (2013)
Hilary Duff video for "All About You" (2015)
Monsta X video for "Rush" (2015)
Jedward video for "Good Vibes" (2016)
Taemin video for "Press Your Number_Performance Video Ver.1" (2016)
Red Hot Chili Peppers video for "Dark Necessities" (2016)
Television:
Lost episode of Through the Looking Glass
St. Elsewhere - Season 3 - Episode 1 "Playing God"
The starting location of The Amazing Race 15
24 - Season 3 - Episode 22 / Season 8 - Episode 8
L.A. Heat - episode "Little Saigon" (1999)
Melrose Place - Pilot (2009)
Bosch - Season 1 - Chapter Four: Fugazi (2015)
Fear the Walking Dead - Pilot (2015)
Stitchers - Season 2 - Episode 3 "The One That Got Away" (2016)
Cagney and Lacey - Season 4 - Episode 2- "Heat" (1984)
Columbo - Season 13 - Episode 5 - " Columbo Likes the Nightlife" (2003)
Remington Steele- Season 2- Episode 15 - " Elegy in Steele" (1984)
Video games:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
L.A. Noire
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Grand Theft Auto V
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Split/Second
Here is more info about the Sixth Street Viaduct:
From sixthstreetviaduct.com
HISTORY OF THE SIXTH STREET VIADUCT
Constructed in 1932, the Sixth Street Viaduct (also known as the Sixth Street Bridge) is an important engineering landmark in the City of Los Angeles. It is one of a set of fourteen historic Los Angeles River crossing structures, and is the longest of these structures.
Located in a highly urbanized area just east of downtown Los Angeles, the bridge is a critical transportation link between LA Arts District and Boyle Heights. A 1986 Caltrans bridge survey found it to be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Sixth Street Viaduct (designated as City of Los Angeles [City] Bridge No. 53C-1880 and California Department of Transportation [Caltrans] Bridge No. 53-0595 [portion of viaduct over Hollywood Freeway or US 101]) has an overall length of 3,500 ft., and extends east-west across the Los Angeles River, multiple railroad tracks, US 101, and several local streets. It has a 46 foot wide, four-lane roadway with 11-foot eastbound and westbound inside traffic lanes and 12-foot outside lanes with no shoulders. There are sidewalks of varying widths on both sides.
The Sixth Street Viaduct was constructed using then state-of-the-art concrete technology and an onsite mixing plant. However, just 20 years after the Sixth Street Viaduct was constructed the cement supports began to disintegrate due to a chemical reaction known as Alkai Silica Reaction (ASR), causing significant deterioration of the structure.
Over the years, various costly restorative methods have been tried, but none have worked to correct the problem. The results of seismic vulnerability studies, completed in 2004, concluded that the viaduct, in its current state of material deterioration and lack of structural strength, has a high vulnerability to failure as a result of a major earthquake. In addition to its vulnerability to collapse under predictable seismic forces, the Sixth Street Viaduct also has geometric design and safety deficiencies.
The City of Los Angeles is the owner of 533 structures, which include: 124 vehicular, 65 pedestrian 2 bikeway, and 19 railroad bridges, viaducts, and grade separations; 18 tunnels, and 5 miscellaneous structures that span waterways, roadways, railroad tracks, and valleys between prominent topographical features. Twenty-nine of these structures have been determined to be eligible for listing by the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
In December 2000, the City Council approved a 7 million Bridge Improvement Program (BIP), created within the Seismic Bond, to strengthen and upgrade 83 city-owned bridges. BIP was envisioned to be a long term continuous program, similar to the Bureau of Engineering's Street Program, to improve all bridges within the jurisdiction of the City.
The program is tasked to seek new sources of funding as they become available and to program new projects by working closely with Caltrans, LADOT, Metro, and FHWA staff. Funding is typically comprised of Highway Bridge Program (HBP) funds, with Local Seismic Safety Retrofit Program (LSSRP) state funds and Seismic Bond city funds serving as the local match. These funded projects are then leveraged to obtain additional Metro Call-for-Projects dollars and city Proposition C matching funds to cover expanded scopes of work such as bikeway and pedestrian improvements.
One of the projects in the BIP is the replacement of the Sixth Street Viaduct, a 2 million undertaking.
From Wikipedia:
The Sixth Street Viaduct, also known as the Sixth Street Bridge, was a viaduct bridge that connected the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles with the Boyle Heights neighborhood. It spanned the Los Angeles River, the Santa Ana Freeway (US 101), and the Golden State Freeway (I-5), as well as Metrolink and Union Pacific railroad tracks and several local streets. Built in 1932, the viaduct was composed of three independent structures: the reinforced concrete west segment, the central steel arch segment over the river, and the reinforced concrete east segment. In 1986, the Caltrans bridge survey found the Sixth Street Viaduct eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
Despite its historical status, the bridge was closed for demolition and replacement in January 2016 due to concerns over seismic instability.
During the construction of the viaduct in the 1930s, an onsite plant was used to supply the concrete for construction. However, the quality of the concrete turned out to have a high alkali content and led to an alkali-silica reaction (ASR) which created cracks in the concrete and sapped the strength of the structure. It is the only one of the historic LA River bridges to suffer from ASR.
Estimates stated that the viaduct had a 70% probability of collapse due to a major earthquake within 50 years.[2][3]
After initial demolition plans were delayed,[4] the bridge was closed on January 27, 2016, and demolition was scheduled to begin on February 5, 2016. An estimated 48,000 cubic yards of concrete, 1,245 tons of structural steel and 4,200 tons of rebar will be hauled away as construction begins on the replacement.[5] The new bridge, designed by architect Michael Maltzan and the HNTB Design-Build team and contractors Skanska and Stacy and Witbeck,[6] is set to be completed in 2019. It is expected that it will take nine months to demolish the existing bridge. City leaders are also looking into building parks and plazas around the newly built bridge.
Prior to the demolition, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti recorded the rap song "101SlowJam", backed by musicians from the city's Roosevelt High School, and issued it via a video on his own YouTube channel. The public service announcement video advertised the closure of parts of the 101 Freeway to accommodate the demolition of the viaduct.