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Union Oil Center

Description: New Union Oil Company of California complex being built. Among the parking lots sits the Walgrove Apartments, 427 South Figueroa Street. Monarch Hotel, 905 West 5th Street, to the left has vertical and rooftop signs. Middle background building with the rooftop sign is Hotel St. Paul, 1021 West 6th Street.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 7/15/57
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.

Union Oil Center, from Bunker Hill

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Skeleton framework for Union Oil Center nearing completion. Among the parking lots sits the Walgrove Apartments, 427 South Figueroa Street. Monarch Hotel, 905 West 5th Street, to the left has vertical and rooftop signs. Middle background building with the rooftop sign is Hotel St. Paul, 1021 West 6th Street.

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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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Union Oil Center

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Union Oil Company of California, 1201 West 5th Street, viewed from Bunker Hill. Foreground road that curves to the right is the 4th Street overpass. Left foreground building is the Walgrove Apartments, 427 South Figueroa Street. Left background building with the rooftop sign is Hotel St. Paul, 1021 West 6th Street.

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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

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View of Union Oil Company of California, 1201 West 5th Street, from the 23rd floor of the Union Bank building. Thirteen story Home Office Building tower linked by two pedestrian bridges to the Beaudry Building with its auditorium and cafeteria across the street. The Union Oil center covers a square block.

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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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