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The Melrose Hotel wrecking in progress
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Melrose and Richelieu Hotels on South Grand Avenue
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Melrose and Richelieu Hotels still intact with Richelieu Hotel slated for wrecking first.
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Main Street at the 101 Freeway. Grand Central Hotel being wrecked
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Demolition of Grand Central Hotel located at North Main and West Aliso streets. Political and theatrical posters are affixed to the side of the Hotel.
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Rear view of Grand Central Hotel being demolished. Main Street at 101 Freeway
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Rear of Grand Central Hotel with four workers carrying out demolition as seen from North Los Angeles Street and East Aliso Street intersection, Los Angeles.
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End of the police station
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A couple of workers continue with demolishing the Central Police Station, 318 West 1st Street. In background from left to right: Fashion League Building, Hotel Northern, and Moore Cliff Hotel building.
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Wrecking the Melrose
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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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