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  • 6th Street and Hope Street

    6th Street and Hope Street

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    The Acacia Hotel, 708 West 6th Street, offered temporary apartments. Looking east on 6th Street toward the intersection of Hope Street. The 1947 General Petroleum Building is at the far right. The Acacia Hotel is at the southwest corner of 6th and Hope Streets.

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  • Wilshire Boulevard at Hope Street

    Wilshire Boulevard at Hope 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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  • Wilshire Boulevard and Hope Street

    Wilshire Boulevard and Hope 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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  • Hill Street tunnel south of Sunset Boulevard

    Hill Street tunnel south of Sunset Boulevard

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    Sealed Hill Street tunnel's north side entrance just south of Sunset Boulevard. Political posters and circus advertisements plastered over faded Mount Lowe painted sign.

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  • 6th Street and Hope Street

    6th Street and Hope Street

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    Acacia Hotel, 708 West 6th Street, at the southwest corner of the intersection.

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  • Sunset Boulevard and Hill Street

    Sunset Boulevard and Hill Street

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    Croyden Apartments Hotel, 620 Sunset Boulevard, at the intersection of Hill Street. Side of building has separate ads for a funeral home and chocolate along with a Morton Salt billboard. Faded Mount Lowe sign on wall to the left. Background building is the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters at 450 North Grand Avenue.

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