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1st Street and Broadway bordered block
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1st Street looking west from Broadway
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Entire square block encompassed by Broadway, 1st Street, Hill Street, and 2nd Street, being demolished. Arched entrance and side wall of former Los Angeles Police Department's Central Police Station still stand for the moment along 1st Street.
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Union League Building at 2nd Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles
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Northeast corner of 2nd Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, fenced off for demolition of the Fashion League Building (formerly the Union League Building).
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1st Street and Broadway
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Entire square block at the southwest corner of 1st Street and Broadway being cleared for future State Office building. Fashion League Building and Hotel Northern in central background.
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Demolition of 1st Street block from Hill Street to Broadway
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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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2nd Street and Broadway block about to be wrecked
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Hellman Building, 223 West 2nd Street, on the northeast corner of Broadway and 2nd Street. Los Angeles Transit Lines' Type P-3 #3160 streetcar going north on Broadway.
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Looking down 2nd Street at the Hotel Astor
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Hotel Astor with the Fashion League Building (formerly the Union League Building) being demolished across the street from the 2nd Street tunnel hill.
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