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  • Union Oil Center, from Bunker Hill

    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

    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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  • Union Oil Center underway

    Union Oil Center underway

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    Cranes raise the steel skeleton frame that will bear the weight and load of the Union Oil Center building.

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  • Union Oil Center

    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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  • Civic Center as viewed across freeway from Union Oil Center

    Civic Center as viewed across freeway from Union Oil Center

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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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  • Union Oil Center

    Union Oil Center

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    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.

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