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Richfield-Bank of America Block and Dawson’s bookstore
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Dawson’s Book Shop
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Dawson’s Book Shop at 550 South Figueroa Street is between two parking lots. Gates Hotel, 830 West 6th Street, is across the street to the right. Tishman building, 615 South Flower Street, in the background.
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Union Oil Center, from Bunker Hill
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Work continues on rooftop structures of the Union Onion Center and the partially visible two wings to the left and right of the main tower. Beaudry Building sits below in front. Among the parking lots are the Walgrove Apartments, 427 South Figueroa Street. Middle background building with the rooftop sign is Hotel St. Paul, 1021 West 6th Street.
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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 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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Apartments going up at 1st and Hope Streets
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Bunker Hill Towers apartment complex under constrction. Central Tower is at 800 West 1st Street and 32 stories high. Background buildings right of center being built are 19-story companion towers, 234 South Figueroa Street, along Figueroa and Third Streets.
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