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  • 1st Street and Broadway bordered block

    1st Street and Broadway bordered block

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    Entire square block, encompassed between 1st Street, 2nd Street, Hill Street and Broadway, being leveled. Fashion League Building (formerly Union League Building), on the corner of 2nd and Hill Streets at right, in the early stages of demolition. 1950 Studebaker Commander parked in the red zone.

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  • 1st and Olive Streets

    1st and Olive Streets

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    Apartments to be demolished; adjacent structure to its south already gone. New courthouse under construction in background across 1st Street.

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  • Northeast corner 2nd and Main Streets

    Northeast corner 2nd and Main Streets

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    Hotel Yorke, 103 East 2nd Street, at the corner with Main Street is at an early stage of wrecking. Next door, the top story of the brick three story Weil Building is already gone. Two different companies doing the demolition.

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  • Los Angeles Street making way for more Civic Center

    Los Angeles Street making way for more Civic Center

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    Block of wholesale houses and stores and Hotel Daimon along Los Angeles Street undergoing demolition. United States Courthouse towering in the background.

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  • Rear of building on 1st Street

    Rear of building on 1st Street

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    J. & B. Wilson block structure on south side of 1st Street. Separate trucks loaded full of bricks or wood from the demolition. Ad for Maier & Zobelein Brewery's Pilsener beer on side of building. Los Angeles City Health Building on the right.

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  • Intersection of Spring Street and 7th Street to 6th Street, Los Angeles. Grosse Building being wrecked

    Intersection of Spring Street and 7th Street to 6th Street, Los Angeles. Grosse Building being wrecked

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    Gross Building (formerly the Abbot Kinney) with scaffolding as it is undergoing demolition.

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