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S. side of Apartment House at 145 S. Bunker Hill Avenue
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343 S. Bunker Hill Avenue. 3rd Place was built to run north from Bunker Hill Avenue to Hope after the construction of the Fourth Street Cut.
Neg. 14078
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255 South Bunker Hill Avenue (architect: James M. Shields, 1902). The large front porches were a 1914 addition.
Book 3, pg. 6 / Neg. 9945
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E/S Bunker Hill Avenue
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Rose, the cat lady, tends to one of the Hill's many felines at 246 South Bunker Hill Avenue. This house and no. 244 were purchased by the CRA in May 1961, as part of the urban renewal plan.
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Residents of S. Bunker Hill Avenue
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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.
Neg. 9993
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W/S Bunker Hill Avenue at 3rd Street
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The Alta Vista, 255 South Bunker Hill, developed by James M. and Maud Shields in 1903.
Neg. 9886