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1st Street, Grand Avenue to Hope Street



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  • 1st Street west of Hill Street

    1st Street west of Hill Street

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    Texaco service station with the El Moro Hotel above it. Further up 1st Street is the Hotel Gladden. Far right area is the site for the new Los Angeles County Courthouse.

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  • 5th Street between Flower Street and Grand Avenue

    5th Street between Flower Street and Grand Avenue

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    From the roof of the Jonathan Club looking east across Flower Street towards Los Angeles Central Library. Steel skyscraper, 515 South Flower Street, of City National Plaza (formerly ARCO Plaza) taking shape at left. From left to right across the street from the library are the Sunkist Building, parking garage, Engstrum Apartment Hotel and the Edison Building. Pacific Bell Tower is in the center background.

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  • 1st and Hope Streets

    1st and Hope Streets

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    Lot grading to street level by power shovel and clamshell bucket crane with dump trucks removing the dirt.

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  • Grand Avenue, 1st to 2nd Streets

    Grand Avenue, 1st to 2nd Streets

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    This collection consists of 35mm Kodachrome slides taken between 1954 and 1972. This collection of photographs taken by amateur photographer Palmer Conner documents by street the physical and social changes of Bunker Hill during the earliest stages of redevelopment. The collection is particularly strong in its depiction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles during redevelopment in the 1950s. Images chiefly consist of views of commercial and residential building exteriors taken from the street, including images of both new construction and older buildings in the process of being demolished.

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    Grand Avenue, Temple to 1st Streets

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    This collection consists of 35mm Kodachrome slides taken between 1954 and 1972. This collection of photographs taken by amateur photographer Palmer Conner documents by street the physical and social changes of Bunker Hill during the earliest stages of redevelopment. The collection is particularly strong in its depiction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles during redevelopment in the 1950s. Images chiefly consist of views of commercial and residential building exteriors taken from the street, including images of both new construction and older buildings in the process of being demolished.

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  • Portion of 6th Street between Grand Avenue and Hope Street

    Portion of 6th Street between Grand Avenue and Hope Street

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    Side view of the University Club building seen from 6th Street. University Club of Los Angeles was founded March 27, 1898. Short building to the left with the terra cotta tile roof at 614 West 6th Street was designed by John Parkinson; Morris Carr, men's clothier and custom tailor business, occupies it.

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