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From Apartment building on S. Olive Avenue showing, at right, original Hill on 1st Street


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    Looking East on 2nd Street, between Grand and Olive, 1953

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    The Koster House, on the north side of Second Street, 515 W Second. The mansard-roofed Argyle Hotel, right, sits at Second and Olive. Other lost structures include the Hall of Records, California State Building, and the gasometers at Commercial and Center streets.

    Book 3, pg. 32 / Neg. 7102

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    At corner of 1st and Olive streets, 1953

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    At right, the Hotel Gladden at 100 South Olive. Built as the Hotel Cecil in 1903 by Bernard Holmes.

    Book 1, pg. 57 / Neg. 6933

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    Angels Flight Café and apartment houses on Olive Street near 3rd

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    The Café was given a streamline remodel in 1936. Behind the Café, the La Loma at 251 S. Olive (architect: Lewis A. Smith, 1923) and the Cumberland (architect: Marsh & Russell, 1904).

    Book 1, pg. 42 / Neg. 12693

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    Cumberland Hotel Apartments, 243 S. Olive, 1962

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    The Cumberland Hotel (architect: Marsh and Russell, 1904). This is where Hall moved in 1952. There are numerous shots of its interior in the contact sheet binders. Hall moved to the Engstrum Apartments at Fifth and Grand when the Cumberland was marked for razing.

    Book 3, pg. 34 / Neg. 14105

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    Rear of Melrose and 130 S. Grand Avenue from Olive Street

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    From left to right, the rear of the Richelieu, 142 South Grand; the Melrose Annex at 130 South Grand, and the Melrose at 120 South Grand, shot from Olive Street looking west.

    Book 1, pg. 15 / Neg. 10088

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    From apartment at 243 S. Olive. Looking N/E, 1956

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    From Hall's apartment window. The two large structures, center, are the back of the Hotel Northern at Second and Clay, and the Fashion League building at Second and Hill Streets.

    Book 3, pg. 38 / Neg. 8983