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Clay Street view of Olive Street remnants between 2nd and 3rd

Description: Bunker Hill housing structures being demolished on Olive Street. Building to the left is nearly gone.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 7/27/61
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.

Olive Street between 2nd and 1st Streets

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Seymour Apartments, 502 West 1st Street, with courthouse construction behind it. Rooms to rent building, 115 South Olive Street, at far left already demolished.

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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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Olive Street slums near 2nd Street

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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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Bunker Hill from Clay Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, looking west

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Rear view of a Bunker Hill slum, 224 South Olive Street. From the Olive Street side, two stories could be seen, but five stories are visible in the rear.

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