Wrecking the last big mansion on Wilshire Boulevard

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  Demolition of Hellman Mansion on Wilshire Boulevard

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  Southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Catalina Street. Property frontage was longer on Catalina Street than along Wilshire Boulevard. Billboards on the property's lawn.

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  Building's last days on Spring Street

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  Cleveland Wrecking Company handling the demolition of the Spring Hotel, 245 ½ South Spring Street. At left, the Douglas Building, 257 South Spring Street.

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  Plugged Hill Street tunnel exit at Sunset Boulevard

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  Sealed Hill Street tunnel's north side entrance just south of Sunset Boulevard. Political posters and circus advertisements plastered over faded Mount Lowe painted sign. At right, Croyden Apartments Hotel, 620 Sunset Boulevard.

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  Last day, wrecking started

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  South Flower Street at the intersection of 5th Street.

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  The last old Bunker Hill mansion on Olive Street

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  Last Victorian mansion on Olive Street. Stairs lead up to the one story wood frame house with a front porch and basement. Low wall of fieldstone around the front yard. It was converted to a boarding house later on.

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  Hope Street north of Wilshire Boulevard

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  Travel advertisement for French Line's S. S. France ocean liner partially covers the faded Acacia Hotel sign on the side of the building. People are congregated in the far background at the dead end of Hope Street by the Church of the Open Door and the Los Angeles Central Library.

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