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Richfield-Bank of America Block

Description: The excavation and first concrete poured
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 12/7/69
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.

Richfield-Bank of America Block, showing old Richfield Building

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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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Richfield-Bank of America Block and Dawson’s bookstore

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Dawson’s Book Shop, 550 South Figueroa Street, at right. In the middle and left background are the Los Angeles Public Library, Edison Buidling, and microwave tower atop the Pacific Telephone Company building.

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Richfield-Bank of America Block, 5th Street side

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Douglas Oil building with TWA advertisement.

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Richfield-Bank of America building site

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Richfield-Bank of America excavation site

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Southwest view of plaza construction site encompassed by 5th Street, Flower Street, 6th Street, and Figueroa Street. Double bottom dump trucks used to haul away dirt.

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Richfield-Bank of America Building at 6th and Flower Streets

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Richfield-Bank of America Block

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Richfield-Bank of America Block, showing old Richfield Building

Richfield-Bank of America Block and Dawson’s bookstore

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Richfield-Bank of America building site

Richfield-Bank of America excavation site

Richfield-Bank of America Building at 6th and Flower Streets