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Hill Street's old walls and the courthouse

Description: Old retaining walls and stairs that used to lead up to the Moore Cliff Hotel apartment building, 121 South Hill Street, on Bunker Hill. Los Angeles Superior Courthouse lies across the street at 1st Street. 1958 Plymouth Savoy taxi with the Yellow Cab Company nearing intersection has tail fins and yellow wheels.
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Date: 7/23/61
Call number: photCL 486
Creator: Conner, Palmer(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Gina Dunseth, 2004.

Hill Street Tunnels north of 1st Street

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Retaining wall and stairs on left side of Hill Street Tunnels lead up to a vacant Bunker Hill. Circular "NO PARKING" sign hangs between the tunnels. 1952 Los Angeles Police Department Ford Mainline V8 Fordor and unmarked sedan parked nearby.

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Old wall goes

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Southwest corner of Hill and 1st Streets. Leveling the ground once occupied by the Moore Cliff Hotel and other structures and demolishing the Hill Street side retaining wall in the process.

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Hill Street block from 2nd to 1st Streets, just bought by County

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Moore Cliff Hotel, 121 South Hill Street, above the beer billboard for Arizona Brewing Company's A-1 beer. Further up the street, new courthouse under construction at 1st Street.

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Hill Street tunnels site and new courthouse

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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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1st and Hill Streets, from courthouse roof

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The last old Bunker Hill mansion on Olive Street

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Last Victorian mansion on Olive Street. Stairs lead up to the one story wood frame house with a front porch and basement. Low wall of fieldstone around the front yard. It was converted to a boarding house later on.

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Hill Street's old walls and the courthouse

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