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8th and Flower Streets

Description: Thirteen story headquarters of Southern California Gas Company with its blue flame icon on the exterior panels and its adjoining 1924 building are part of the Southern California Gas Company Complex.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 8/20/66
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.; RESTRICTED. Use digital reproductions in the Huntington Digital Library. Originals available by special permission only.

8th and Flower Streets intersection

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Hotels and a large parking lot occupy the block.

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Flower to Hope Streets, almost cleared

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Viewed from south of 3rd Street, the Stanley Apartment Hotel, 210 South Flower Street, near 2nd Street. Behind it is the Department of Water and Power Headquarters. Between Flower and Hope Streets is the single block length Cinnabar Street in the middle. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at right background.

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Flower Street and Hope Street between 3rd and 4th Streets

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Apartments and hotels line Flower Street and Hope Street. Far left background, Hotel Elmar is at 325 South Hope Street. Its large rooftop sign reads, "NEW HOTEL ELMAR".

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Flower Street near Temple 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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