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Sunset Boulevard and Hill Street
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Hill Street tunnel south of 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.
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Sunset Boulevard at Hill Street
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A Buick passing by an old Victorian structure with a for sale sign attached out front. Building was wrecked in May 1958.
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Sentous block. North Spring Street near Los Angeles Plaza
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Sentous block at the intersection of 616-620 North Spring Street and Bellevue Avenue. Nayarit Restaurant has a colorful neon sign mounted on its structure's corner. 600 block building across the street houses the Colon Cafe and Ninon Sales System businesses.
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Sentous Block, North Spring Street, Los Angeles
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Sentous Block building at 616-620 North Spring Street as seen from the Macy Street intersection, Los Angeles. Hotel Atlantic, Hotel Pacific, and part of Pico House lie to the right in background. Car in the foreground is a 1957 De Soto Fireflite Sportsman.
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Hill Street opened into Castelar Street over Sunset Boulevard
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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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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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