George's Market, 644 W. First Street, 1957

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  West 3rd Street from Grand to Olive, night view

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  The southeast corner of Third and Grand. Angels Flight Drugs (architect: Frederick R. Dorn, 1910). The upper terminus of Angels Flight is at the end of the block down Third. The domed structure above Angels Flight is the Million Dollar Theater at Third and Broadway.

  Book 1, pg. 36 / Neg. 9997

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  512 West First Street, 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 3, pg. 54 / Neg. 9902

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  Cornice decoration, 1953

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  The Court Apartments, 202 North Hope Street at corner of Court street (architect: Theodore A. Eisen, 1906).

  Book 3, pg. 46 / Neg. 5154

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  Fantastic construction of old building in area, 1957

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  Detail of 601-611 West Sunset, at the corner of Sunset and Hill Place.

  Book 3, pg. 59 / Neg. 11199

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  Steps from 2nd Street (i.e. Third St.) to Hope Street at west end of tunnel

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  Actually, steps from Third Street, at Hope, running from "Lower Hope" to "Upper Hope" next to the Crown Hotel at 702 West Third.

  Book 1, pg. 30 / Neg. 14084

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  From West 3rd, on Olive looking South, 1957

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  Partial view of the Casa Alta at right, then from right, the Ems Apartment Hotel at 321 South Olive, the Olive Inn and the Central Garage on the corner of Fourth Street.

  Book 3, pg. 28 / Neg. 12693