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2nd Street west of Broadway

Description: Barren hill top area and the hotels at the left in the far background are within Bunker Hill.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: June 1961
Call number: photCL 486
Creator: Conner, Palmer(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Gina Dunseth, 2004.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED. Use digital reproductions in the Huntington Digital Library. Originals available by special permission only.
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Stretch of Flower Street north of 5th Street

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North view along Flower Street from top of the Bank of California Building. Prominent buildings in the background from left to right are the Bunker Hill Towers, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the Music Center.

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South Olive Street towards 4th Street

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Row of four Victorian structures at 322-334 South Olive Street. In the shadowed left background is the Broadway department store and the Black Building, 357-361 South Hill Street. Visible in the far background, Hotel Clark sign is at 426 Hill Street and the tower of the Title Guarantee Building at 411 5th Street. On the sidewalk next to the cleared area is a Danger Keep Out sign and a barricade with light. 1961 Plymouth Suburban station wagon coming up the hill.

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Hotel Broadway

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Roof and top floor of the hotel are gone. Adjacent stairway paralleled the Court Flight cable railway; it led up to Hill Street. 1955 Ford Customline out front with a 1950-51 Studebaker parked at far left.

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1st and Hope Streets

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Boarded up apartments at 106 North Hope Street on the left. Taller background building is the Santa Clara Apartments, 111 North Bunker Hill Avenue.

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Broadway between 2nd and 3rd 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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Commercial Street west of San Pedro Street

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Wholesale grocery stores along north side of the street with United States Court House in background. Parked United States Postal Service vehicles at far left.

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2nd Street west of Broadway

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