Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108

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Steel frame being assembled for Los Angeles' new Department of Water and Power building, 111 North Hope Street across 1st Street.
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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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Work progresses from the bottom up as workers complete the lower floors of the skeleton framework for a new thirteen story office structure. Foreground building has a sign for Del E. Webb Construction Company.
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Six story structure is the Isaias W. Hellman Building, 411 South Main Street, near 4th Street. Left two buildings are to be demolished for bank parking garage. Muse Theater, 417 Main Street, is already shuttered.
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1931 State Building at the northwest corner of 1st Street and Broadway visible behind building steel frame.
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Entire square block from Broadway to Hill Street and 1st Street toward 2nd Street being cleared for local State building. Department of Water and Power office building, Fashion League Building and Hotel Northern in background.
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