Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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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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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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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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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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Rear view of structures and cars from Clay Street. The left building is 224 South Olive Street. On the far right, the Hotel Northern sat at the southwest corner of Hill Street and Clay Street.
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