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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Bunker Hill housing structures being demolished on Olive Street. Building to the left is nearly gone.
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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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Haig M. Prince Building, 145 South Broadway. The turreted Roanoke Building to the right offered office space. Nine floor California State Office Building under construction at right with steel I-beams from Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel.
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Hotel Yorke, 103 East 2nd Street, at the corner with Main Street is at an early stage of wrecking. Next door, the top story of the brick three story Weil Building is already gone. Two different companies doing the demolition.
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Gordon Building in the middle being demolished. On the Gordon Building's right is the Fay Building, formerly the Crocker Building.
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