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Melrose Hotel, 120 S. Grand Avenue, 1957
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142 S. Grand Avenue, 1957
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Robert Larkins built this house in 1888 at 142 South Grand as his residence and to house boarders. It was demolished in 1957. Its architects are unknown but may be Bradbeer and Ferris.
Book 1, pg. 17 / Neg. 9992
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Wrecking Sherwood Apartments at 431 S. Grand Avenue, next to Edison Bldg., 1957
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Hall lived in the Sherwood (architect: Meyer & Holler, 1913) when he moved to Los Angeles, but relocated to the Cumberland in 1952. The adjacent Southern California Edison purchased and demolished the hotel for an employee parking lot, September 1957.
Book 3, pg. 12 / Neg. 11304
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Detail of building (the DOME), S/W corner of 2nd, and Grand Avenue, 1957
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The Moorish/Mission-style Minnewaska, renamed "the Dome," 201 South Grand, built by James Shields and daughter Maud, in 1902. Burned in 1964, it was demolished soon after.
Book 1, pg. 33 / Neg. 10232
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Colonial at 316 S. Grand Avenue, 1957
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The Colonial Flats, 312-314 South Grand Ave. (architect: Frederick R. Dorn, 1902) contained four apartments, finished in yellow pine.
Book 3, pg. 17 / Neg. 10953
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Wrecking of Capitol Hotel, 300 block, W/S of S. Grand Avenue, 1962
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Demolition of the Kenneth, 325 South Grand Ave (architect: William H. Mohr, 1905); still standing is the Stevens at 321 (architect: Frederick R. Dorn, 1904) which was demolished at the end of 1964.
Book 3, pg. 16 / Neg. 14101
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142 S. Grand Avenue, being wrecked, 1957
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This collection contains approximately 9,000 negatives (2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches), 7 binders of contact prints of a large portion of the negatives, and 3 photobooks (11 x 14 inches). The photographs were taken by Theodore Hall, an avid amateur photographer and resident of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles from 1938 to 1963. Photographs depict the historic structures and streets of the neighborhood before and during the urban renewal of the 1950s, when buildings were razed and much of the hill was lopped off and graded. Hall photographed houses, storefronts, signs, architectural details, cars, and often the residents: shopkeepers, newsstand vendors, local children, and people on their front porches. A diverse population including African American, Asian American, Latin American, and white residents are pictured in everyday activities in the neighborhood. Grand Central Market, the downtown food and grocery emporium, is featured extensively in detailed images of vendors, customers, neon signs, and food stalls. Also seen on Bunker Hill are hotels and apartment buildings, the Angels Flight funicular railway, Victorian mansions turned into rooming houses, liquor stores, and construction crews grading land and pouring cement. Many historic buildings are seen in disrepair, and some are pictured in the midst of being torn down. Other Los Angeles sites depicted are: Union Station, City Hall, Olvera Street and the Plaza, churches, freeways, and automotive tunnels. The contact print binders also contain Hall's photographs of friends, social gatherings, camera club members, practice portrait sessions, annual visits to family in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a few day trips in Southern California. Some of the Los Angeles architects whose buildings are represented are: John C. W. Austin, Austin and Brown, Welton Becket, Dodd and Richards, Frederick R. Dorn, Edelman & Barnett, Theodore A. Eisen, Charles O. Ellis, Arthur L. Haley, Marsh and Russell, T. J. McCarthy, William H. Mohr, Joseph C. Newsom, John Parkinson, John Cotter Pelton Jr., James M. Shields, Lewis A. Smith, Train and Williams, George Herbert Wyman, and Robert Brown Young.
Book 1, pg. 19 / Neg. 10210