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Wrecking old-timers at the freeway
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Main Street at 101 freeway. Grand Central Hotel being wrecked
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Grand Central Hotel and neighboring structures being demolished. Signs for the Arizona Café, Federal Loan and Jewelry Co., a notary public, and photo studio are visible on the adjacent buildings. Union Station is barely visible in the background at left.
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Main Street at 101 Freeway. Old buildings being wrecked
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South view across the 101 Freeway towards remnants of the Baker Block. The U.S. Courthouse and Los Angeles City Hall are visible in the background. Political and theatrical posters are affixed to the side of a building.
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Bunker Hill Avenue home close to 4th Street
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Mansion on the east side of South Bunker Hill Avenue. Slight portion of left adjacent structure being demolished is visible. Separate building to the right is a garage.
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Wrecking old bank building
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A young girl poses with the remnants of the Baker Block being demolished on Main Street in the background.
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Old Frost Building being wrecked
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Haig M. Prince Building, formerly the Frost Building, undergoing wrecking. Adjacent buildings along Broadway and West 2nd Street already reduced to the ground.
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Perfect old-timer in St. James Park
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This collection consists of 35mm Kodachrome slides taken between 1954 and 1972. This collection of photographs taken by amateur photographer Palmer Conner documents by street the physical and social changes of Bunker Hill during the earliest stages of redevelopment. The collection is particularly strong in its depiction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles during redevelopment in the 1950s. Images chiefly consist of views of commercial and residential building exteriors taken from the street, including images of both new construction and older buildings in the process of being demolished.
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