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5th and Flower Street intersection and beyond

Description: Atop the Bank of California Building, looking north along Flower Street from 6th Street to the additional onramp construction at 4th Street. Prominent buildings in the background from left to right are the Bunker Hill Towers, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the Music Center.
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Date: 3/1/70
Call number: photCL 486
Creator: Conner, Palmer(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Gina Dunseth, 2004.

Stretch of Flower Street north of 5th Street

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North view along Flower Street from top of the Bank of California Building. Prominent buildings in the background from left to right are the Bunker Hill Towers, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the Music Center.

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6th and Flower Streets

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East along 6th Street from Flower Street toward Hope Street. On the right is Mobil Oil/General Petroleum Building, 612 South Flower Street. Further east is the National Oil Building, 609 South Grand Avenue. Background skyscrapers under construction are the City National Bank on the left and One Wilshire right of cente.

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5th Street between Flower Street and Grand Avenue

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From the roof of the Jonathan Club looking east across Flower Street towards Los Angeles Central Library. Steel skyscraper, 515 South Flower Street, of City National Plaza (formerly ARCO Plaza) taking shape at left. From left to right across the street from the library are the Sunkist Building, parking garage, Engstrum Apartment Hotel and the Edison Building. Pacific Bell Tower is in the center background.

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6th and Flower Streets, excavating for Superior Oil Building

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Looking south at the northeast corner of Flower and 6th Streets with its covered walkways around the construction site. Background building is Mobil Oil/General Petroleum Building, 612 South Flower Street.

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6th and Flower Streets

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Atlantic Richfield Plaza construction occurring at 6th Street. Southland Hotel, 605 South Flower Street, at left.

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5th and Flower 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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5th and Flower Street intersection and beyond

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