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5th and Olive Streets, showing scramble system for traffic

Description: View down South Olive Street at the pedestrian scramble crossing system which allows people to cross diagonally. At right, Googies restaurant, 501 West 5th Street, and San Carlos Hotel, 507 West 5th Street. Across 5th Street is the Biltmore Hotel, 515 South Olive 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.

Pershing Square buildings on 5th Street

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Buildings framed by Pershing Square park trees and benches from left to right: Auditorium Building, 427 West 5th Street; building at 415 West 5th Street; Title Guarantee Building, 411 West 5th Street; and Hotel Clark, 426 South Hill Street.

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5th Street west of Olive Street, showing new Union Bank Square

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One way traffic going west on 5th Street. In middle background, Sunkist Building at 707 West 5th Street with Union Bank Square still under construction at 5th and Figueroa Streets.

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5th Street between Olive and Hill Streets

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Buildings next to Pershing Square park along 5th Street from left to right: Auditorium Building, 427 West 5th Street; building at 415 West 5th Street; and Title Guarantee Building, 411 West 5th Street.

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5th Street east of Figueroa Street

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Seven story Sunkist Building, 707 West 5th Street, east of the Flower Street intersection. Tall background buildings are the Edison Building, 601 West 5th Street, and Pacific Telephone’s communications center with its microwave tower at 420 South Grand Avenue.

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Flower Street between 4th and 5th Streets

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400 block of South Flower Street cleared for redevelopment with the Sunkist Building, 707 West 5th Street, to the right still in place. In the background on the right, the Art Deco style Edison Building, 601 West 5th Street, and Pacific Bell Tower, 420 South Grand Avenue, on the left.

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South Olive Street towards 4th Street

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Row of four Victorian structures at 322-334 South Olive Street. In the shadowed left background is the Broadway department store and the Black Building, 357-361 South Hill Street. Visible in the far background, Hotel Clark sign is at 426 Hill Street and the tower of the Title Guarantee Building at 411 5th Street. On the sidewalk next to the cleared area is a Danger Keep Out sign and a barricade with light. 1961 Plymouth Suburban station wagon coming up the hill.

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5th and Olive Streets, showing scramble system for traffic

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